Bangkok’s BTS to cost more than Hong Kong, Singapore next month: former MP

A former Bangkok MP said City Hall should make a power play to renegotiate terms with the BTS operator rather than hike fares after Bangkok’s defiant governor refused to budge on doing so, going so far as to dare his critics to file complaints with anti-corruption authorities. 

Kla Party founder and former Bangkok MP Atavit Suwannapakdee said today that he disagreed with Gov. Aswin Kwanmuang’s decision to stick to his guns on raising max fares on all lines to THB104, saying that would make the BTS more expensive to ride than comparable lines in Hong Kong and Singapore.

“If the private service provider is so unwilling to negotiate, the government should remember that it still holds the cards on the concession for the MRT Orange Line,” he wrote, referring to a future eastern line not yet formally awarded to the Bangkok Mass Transit System to operate.

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