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Table 4: Current operating rail mass transit lines in Bangkok and its metropolitan area

Core Network Green Green Gold Line Blue Line Purple Line Airport Rail Link Dark Red Line Light Red Line
Extension 1 Extension 2 Phase 1
Route • Dark Green • Dark Green • Southern Green Krung Thonburi - • Initial Blue Line Tao Poon - Khlong Phayathai - Bang Sue - Bang Sue -
Mo Chit - Onnut Onnut - Bearing Bearing - Kheha Khlong San Hua Lampong - Bang Phai Suvarnabhumi Rangsit Taling Chan
• Light Green • Light Green • Northern Green Bang Sue
National Stadium Saphan Taksin - Mo Chit - • Blue Line
- Saphan Taksin BangWa Khu Kot extension
Hua Lamphong -
Lak Song,
Bang Sue -
Tha Phra

Distance 24.0 13.0 32.0 1.9 47.0 23.0 28.7 26.3 15.3
(km)
No. of 24 11 25 3 38 16 8 8 4
stations
Authority BMA BMA BMA BMA MRTA MRTA SRT SRT SRT
Operator BTSC BTSC BTSC BTSC BEM BEM SRT SRT SRT
Contract Concession O&M Contract O&M Contract O&M Contract Concession Concession Public Sector Public Sector Public Sector
type Agreement Agreement Agreement Comparator Comparator Comparator
(PPP Net Cost) (PPP Net Cost) (PPP Gross Cost) (PSC) (PSC) (PSC)

Contract • 30 years 30 years 25 years 30 years 33 years 30 years 1 year Until 2024 Until 2024
length (1999-2029) (2012-2042) (2017-2042) (2020-2050) (2017-2050) (2013-2043) (renew annually)
• 13 years O&M
(2029-2042)

2.2 Comparable Markets Overview of Rail Mass Transit in Bangkok In comparison to regional peers, Bangkok is lagging behind Tokyo, Singapore
and Nearby Countries and Hong Kong in terms of network length as well as pervasion of 42.7km,
As of December 2021, the Bangkok Metropolitan Region had an official 45.0km and 38.2km per million population, respectively. Moreover, in 2021,
population of more than 10.9mn compared to 14.0mn in Tokyo, 7.4mn in the rail market share was 48% for Tokyo, 46% for Singapore, 47% for Hong
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Hong Kong and 5.5mn in Singapore. The urban mass transit pervasion for Kong and merely 13% in Bangkok . It remains clear that the development of
Bangkok increased from the previous year to 19.4km per million population Bangkok’s mass transit system is urgently needed to cope with the severe
following the network expansion, as seen in the commercial operations of road traffic congestion, compared to its regional peers (table 5) as well as to
the Dark Red Line (26.3km, 8 stations) and the Light Red Line (15.3km, 4 stations). help alleviate Bangkok’s pollution issues.