The Total length is 35.9 Km
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In June 2019, the MRT Brown Line was approved by the MRT Board for an integrated design with the N2 Expressway design by EXAT. Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited (BEM) was the only private sector company that won a bid in MRTA’s concession contract for the blue line. For the first MRT line, officially known as Chaloem Ratchamongkhon or informally as the “Blue Line”, civil infrastructure was provided by the government sector, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), and handed over to their concessionaire under a 25-year concession agreement. The MRT was constructed under a concession framework.
The line would essentially have replaced the need to build an elevated Expressway. By August 2018, OTP had completed the feasibility study and conducted public hearings. Subsequently, OTP has reworked the Gold Line proposal into a new Brown Line following much the same route. As of June 2013, the route was under preliminary study by OTP. However, the Pheu Thai candidate did not win the Bangkok Governor election and the Gold Line was dropped with the Deputy Minister of Transport stating that land appropriation costs were too high.
The two MRT lines have 470,000 passengers each day (Blue Line 400,000 and Purple Line 70,000) with 45 operational stations and a combined route length of 60 kilometers (37 mi). After completion in April 2020, the Blue Line has become a quasi loop line (providing interchange with itself at Tha Phra) around the centre of Bangkok. Other MRT lines are planned for the future MRT system with the MRT Orange Line, MRT Yellow Line and MRT Pink Line all currently under construction. From mid 2011, construction began to extend the MRT Blue Line with an extension west from Hua Lamphong via Tha Phra to Lak Song, and in the north from Bang Sue to Tha Phra.
As MRTA’s concessionaire, BEM provides M&E equipment, including electrical trains, signalling systems, SCADA, communication, PSD, etc. for the subway project and fully operates the system. To maintain the system, BEM has subcontracted in 10 years to Siemens which was the M&E system supplier since system opening and 7 years maintenance contract to two local maintenance services for north and south line. The construction of the first Bangkok (visit the following page) Metro line, officially known as Chaloem Ratchamongkhon (Thai สายเฉลิมรัชมงคล) – “Celebration of Royal Auspice” – or informally as the “Blue Line”, began on 19 November 1996. The project suffered multiple delays not only because of the 1997 economic crisis, but also due to challenging civil engineering works of constructing massive underground structures deep in the water-logged soil upon which the city is built.
