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Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal - Rangsit section opened 22.5 km (14.0 mi) 10 Light Red Line: Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal - Taling Chan section opened 14.93 km (9.28 mi) 4 2023 3 July Yellow Line: Lat Phrao - Samrong section opened 28.62 km (17.78 mi) 23 2024 7 January Pink Line: Nonthaburi Civic Centre - Min Buri section opened
The line is built largely along the same alignment as the failed Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System (BERTS) project, which was started by Hopewell Holdings and ceased construction in 1997, when only 10 percent of the project had been completed. Many idle pillars left from BERTS stood in the way of the new system.
Thales, has been supporting SRT's efforts by introducing its ETCS technology since 2017, and has designed, delivered, and installed the ETCS Level 1 Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system covering a total of 48 stations across four sections of track in the Bangkok area. [24]
Main track number is reference by Up track (direction away from Bangkok). In typical cases, leftmost main Up track always track #1 and increasing to the right, so signal on Up main track are number 1 in Up direction and 2 in Down direction, and for track #2 will be 3 and 4, track #3 will be 5 and 6 and so on.
The system sees a traffic of over 1.5 million vehicles per day. [1] Bangkok has 9.7 million automobiles and motorbikes, a number the government says is eight times more than can be properly accommodated on existing roads. [2] And those numbers are increasing by 700 additional cars and 400 motorbikes every day. [3]
It opened on 28 September 2023 (the airport’s 17th anniversary) as part of the partial opening of Suvarnabhumi Airport Midfield Satellite Concourse 1 (SAT-1) and connects the main terminal with SAT-1. It is the only airport people mover system in Thailand and is 1 km in length. [1]
The Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning or OTP (Thai: สำนักงานนโยบายและแผนการขนส่งและจราจร) is a department of the Thai government, under the Ministry of Transport.
Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTSC, Thai: บริษัทระบบขนส่งมวลชนกรุงเทพ จำกัด (มหาชน)) is a Thai transport company, best known as the operator of Bangkok's BTS Skytrain.