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BTS bid must bring benefit
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/11/2020
» Transparency and public interest must be a priority when the government decides whether or not it will extend Bangkok Mass Transit System’s (BTSC) concession for the skytrain’s Green Line. Last week, the cabinet withheld its approval to extend BTSC’s concession for 30 more years, as proposed by Interior Minister, Anupong Paojinda, following strong opposition from the Transport Ministry.
Come clean on Mor Chit
Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/11/2020
» Last week, a group of residents in Soi Vibhavadi 5 staged a protest against the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for a land appropriation bid that will swallow their houses and property near the Skytrain depot, formerly the Mor Chit bus terminal, in order to accommodate an elevated road construction project. The residents vowed to take the agency to the Administrative Court.
Give public train deal say
News, Editorial, Published on 31/10/2019
» The Interior Ministry's plan to table a 40-year train concession extension for BTS Group Holdings before the economic cabinet on Friday is likely to hit snag as a House panel has said it will veto the move.
DLT must look at big picture
News, Editorial, Published on 05/04/2018
» In a desperate bid to regulate passenger van operations, the state last year launched a series of measures to make them safer. The goal of getting this extremely popular service in order as part of the regime's "return happiness to the people" policy was laudable. But the implementation, using a centralised, top-down bureaucratic style, has been riddled with errors. Some measures have simply missed the point.