BMA to seek meeting with government to tackle unresolved problems

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will seek a meeting with the new government to discuss cooperation on issues of public interest, problems in the city as well as projects proposed by the city’s administration.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today (Sunday) that the BMA has prepared a list of issues for the discussion, including the traffic problem, the unresolved train fare issue on the BTS skytrain system and the huge debt owed by the city’s administration to BTS and the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT).
The governor also said that the BMA wants to see government support for its project to make Bangkok a hub in which transnational companies invest in the service sector, such as new innovations and start-up businesses, because Bangkok has all the required infrastructure, such as train and communications systems and good accommodation at reasonable prices,…