The BMA began reforming its numbering system last year.
As part of the new system, the BMA divided greater Bangkok, including neighbouring provinces, into four zones. The BMTA said the new system would reduce the number of buses on redundant routes.
Since January 5, the BMTA has started using the new numbering system, using the zone numbers as a prefix for the new route numbers. But BMTA unionists and a Facebook page called Rot Mae Thai (Thai buses) cried foul, saying the new system had too many figures and it would be too hard for the elderly to remember the new bus route numbers.
Following complaints, Transport Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit ordered the BMTA to use just new route numbers with old bus numbers in parentheses.
Rot Mae Thai said the BMTA should use the old bus numbers, which had been used and memorised by Bangkokians for…
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