Bad news for anyone trying to hustle the system and hand off items without passing through the gates at the BTS. That convenient little loophole is no more after June 15.
The BTS Skytrain on Tuesday afternoon announced that it will no longer allow commuters to receive or send items outside their ticket-fare gates.
“We are watching you,” the BTS wrote in its announcement. “If you want to make any delivery or exchange any items, you need to do it when both of you are on the same side of the gate.”
Many were perplexed by the new policy, and some questioned the motives behind it.
“If people can deliver items this way, what’s the harm in that? Will they hinder other passengers trying to get past the gate? Will they get hit by the skytrain? Will they get an electric shock? Or is it that the BTS Skytrain can’t reap profits from us,” Facebook user…
