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Yellow Line monorail experiences its first technical glitch

A malfunction on the Yellow Line monorail held up the service 1.5 hours on Thursday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul

The Yellow Line monorail had its first technical problem after 20 days of trial runs, with five stops from Lat Phrao 101 to Hua Mak temporarily closed for about an hour and a half on Thursday.

The issue reportedly occurred at 7am due to an electrical problem, the first such issue since the 23 stations on the line became fully operational on June 19.

Measures were taken to ease congestion at 8.28am and normal operations resumed at 10.15am.

Separately, the Department of Rail Transport (DRT) and other relevant agencies will speed up the process of improving signs showing the connection between Lat Phrao station on…

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