✅ NEW MRT ORANGE LINE | Opening Bangkok's East Side | All The Stations | Walking Tour
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Bangkok's New MRT Orange Line is almost finished, and it will open up Bangkok's East Side like never before. Starting at Ratchada, it passes Rama 9, Ramkhamhaeng, Hua Mark, Bangkapi and all the way to Minburi. It'll make thousands of commuters lives a lot easier and open up the area for revitalisation. Potential new areas for living, shopping and travelling!
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Living in Minburi area (l will not forget your earlier sarcasm about Minburi Pat 😉) l am super excited about both the Pink and Orange line. But the Orange in particular. These lines are long anticipated and are really gamechangers for us and the whole region in an economic and social sense. Amazing accomplishment by the Thai contractors and government 👍🏻
I took the Minburi comment back months ago.......
Thank you for your hard work. Who knows behind the screen you have to shoot for several days to make it done. I really appreciate it.
I prefer to get it done properly and organised but couldn't stop the rain!
That rider giving you a free lift - what a gent.
Legend. He could have easily asked for 20 baht!
Thanks for the helpful information and footage delivered in your unique and wry style, Pat. It's incredible to think back to how Bangkok has changed over the last 30 odd years. The Skytrain and Subway projects are the best things to happen to Bangkok. Without them, it'd be a grinding halt of traffic. I just hope they don't fill in too many canals. Traveling by boat is one of the charming features of Bangers. Keep up the excellent work of educating us about this very amazing city!
Cheers and thanks for the kind words. Bkk moves into the modern age and these projects will be a massive benefit to all!
On behalf of Thai people I am very thankful for your informative about Thailand capital transportation to the world in English Mr.Pat...Greetings from Chiang Mai khrab.
Thank you so much! It's a pleasure.
@@BangkokPat You 👍 done so well for Thailand.. Thank you very much for your hard work.
Another interesting vlog Pat. I can see the amount of time and energy you put into making this. Thanks as always krub 🙏
Thank you for keeping us all up to date. I miss Bangkok and its wonderful atmosphere.
Thanks Geoffrey. My pleasure.
WOW! The Orange Line will certainly be a lifeline for folks in the area needing public transit. Hopefully, it will free up some of the congestion on the roadways.... Great video Pat! Thanks for taking the time to document this historic event. Cheers!! 🙏🙏
Cheers! It will once it finally opens. Very useful route it takes, a new lifeline for long suffering locals !
Only in Thailand can you hail a taxi and get a free ride because he was going that way 😀👍💖 Great video loads of great information 👍
Cheers, l was technically hitch hiking!
After 3 months in Bangkok I am leaving in a couple of days and I was planning on eliminating all of my YT subscriptions to Thai information channels of which there are quite a few. BUT I have decided to only keep ONE of those subscriptions live until I return in an indefinite future, and that is YOUR channel. It’s so informative and well done to keep me up to date on Bangkok’s past and future. Keep up the good work, and count on me to continue tagging along 🥇 👍
Thank you and I'm glad to hear that, I feel honoured!
the Orange Line will be greatly received I presume , also should push realestate prices up in the outward areas , great video Pat , I wish you well
Thanks Geoffrey, condo prices will be lower at the moment until it opens of course...
11:45 A few corrections here;
• Although the Yellow Line and Orange Line's constructions are on similar timeframes of construction, the Yellow Line will fully open two years before the East Section of the Orange Line.
• This is due to the fact that the contract to run the electrical system, source the trains, and operate the stations for the Eastern Section is bound to the same contract as the construction and operation of the Western Section.
• And as the contract bidding just got out of a second court case, it means that, even though the Eastern Section of the Orange Line will probably finish construction even before the Yellow and Pink Lines, it'll open 2 years after them.
In fact the Yellow Line will initially open as far as Hua mak then completely later on. Orange Line have no trains as yet and will sit idle for a couple of years sadly.
Update: BEM (The company that runs the Blue and Purple Lines) just won the bidding for the Orange Line
Yeah
I agree
I sure hope you get recognized by the TAT and are rewarded for the great content that you continue to compile.
Most deserving, to be sure.
Thank you Pat.
Thanks Steve, that would be great for sure, maybe l'm not trendy enough for the TAT
There is a certain poetry in this video!
Good vid. Your videos are excellently filmed and you have the very british presentation which is very good
Thanks Glen.
Appreciate seeing the full new Orange Line. I know my rental clients living in Sammakorn Village will be delighted with easy access to downtown. Pat, you'd be surprised upper Ramkhamhaeng is very popular place to live with expats, teachers and also middle class Thai.
Thanks Don, shame the line won't properly be open for a while as there are no trains ordered as yet! I had a feeling upper Ramkhamhaeng was more than just a suburb, I saw some nice housing estates around there.
Thank you Pat. A big project condensed into 23 minutes. Well done.
It was a big job Bill! But interesting all the same. Cheers!
@@BangkokPat I'd like to see the "Director's cut" someday!
@@marksoler7338 If you have a few days spare I'm sure you'd have time to watch all of it....
Very informative, as always. Much appreciated.
Cheers Rex.
I used to live down Rat Phatthana Road (Soi Mistine). If you wanted to take public transport to Sukumvit, you had to get a motor cycle taxi or regular taxi to Airport Link Ban Tap Chang, take the Airport link to Makkasan, walk across the Skywalk to the MRT Blue Line to go from Phetchaburi to Sukumvit. It was a lot of changes and waiting around. That same route will be so much more direct, easier and quicker when the new Orange Line Opens. The area to the east of Soi Mistine is nice, especially around Rom Klao. Rom Klao has a beautiful park (Queen SiriKit 60th Anniversary Park).
Another good, no-nonsense and informative video. Nice seeing something from here not covering Nana 4, Soi Cowboy or Khaosan.......Keep up the good work!
Thanks for another great video.
Having first visited BKK long before any of the BTS lines were built, I can say that Bangkok is one of the prime examples of what happens to a city as it gains efficient public transport.
It generates an explosion of commerce, industry, residential housing and (if the city is worthy of it) tourism. In the last 35 years Bangkok has grown beyond anyone's imagination and that is primarily because of the BTS systems.
Cheers Andrew, it sure has and still is going a long way,
Great video Pat! One of my favourite things to do when I'm in Bangkok is get on the BTS or MRT and just get off at a random stop and explore the area around the station. It's a nice way to get to know the city, especially the areas off the beaten path that most tourists will never see.
I'm really looking forward to the opening of the Orange line (and the Pink and Yellow ones!) hopefully by the next time I'm in town.
I thought I was the only one who did this! Lol!
Still living vicariously through Pat. That was fun, and informative. A great city keeps getting better. Has the stray dog situation improved? Good soundtrack, when's the next remix video, and what club had that ginormous mirror ball? I was told it was the largest in Asia. So many stupid questions, cheers Pat.
Cheers, more dogs in the suburbs still, soi dog situation in central Bkk has improved massively, hence the large cat population visible now! Not sure which club had the mirror ball!
I was there on the first day of the grand opening of the MRT on July 3rd 2004. I remember it like it was yesterday. They had all stations at 10 baht for the Grand opening. Really great experience, however I enjoy riding the BTS better.
Ramkhamhaeng Road is going to be the new expat community area after Sukhumvit
Maybe will attract some, it will have a lot of positives in the next few years.
Bangkok, always evolving. 💜 Bangkok.
Great info! Thanks!
Thank you very much.
Nice overview - always interesting to see how the various transit lines are building out. Looking forward to them opening.
Brilliant stuff, so many of these areas I'm still not that familiar with even though I've been living in Bkk for 3.5 years .
As always,
another great video for those who want to know some useful info in Thailand for Bkk!
The problem only is, there are less Farangs travelling to Thailand the next years for sure.
Let’s hope the Chinese government open their covid restriction and let their tourists out…
Farangs don’t have covid any more!
Please air that on Thai TV Channels too!
🙏🏻
One of the reasons I love visiting Bangkok-as soon as i consult a transport map, it's probably out of date!
The design of above ground station looks amazing,Thank you for your hardwork Pat.
It's unique and looks space age!
Bangkok should modernized their electrical wirings...Lots of tourists visit Thailand but still no budget for underground electrical wirings?
They have been doing it slowly for a few years, it's a big job.
Thank you for bringing back my memories of RU, where I graduated from 🎓
Next year I'll go to visit Thailand 🇹🇭 for holiday.
Maybe I can go to see the important place of my life, after long time
I grew up in Bangkapi and live abroad now so this definitely made me think of home. Excited to see what it looks like when I go back.
Good to hear that. The area is slowly changing for the better.
Wow! That was a serious trek, mate! Well done, indeed!
Yes it was, I walked most of it except the bike rides, I have hours of surplus walking footage of it, which I won't be speeding up for a music video! Cheers Luke.
Makes life easier for me, I can finally go do judo without worrying about travel... will be great once it's complete
When it's finally complete it'll be a fabulous addition to the network for sure.
Very interesting and informative video Pat, really appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into your videos, cheers. 🙏🏼
Thanks Graham.
Thanks for this video!🙏❤️ I live not that far from Ramkamhaeng Road. Last few years I was wondering where will be the closet to me station. Now I know it because of your super informative footage😊
Cheers, glad you now know, so many stations I visited but lots of fun.
While you may have the upper hand on Mr Cash having walked the Orange Line, Johnny did hear the train a comin'. And on the Blue Line no less! As always, great content. Thanks for your efforts!
Cheers Michael!
Thanks for getting this video. That is a long grueling and its probably the least pleasant to do in Bangkok especially with all that construction going on.
judging how bad Thailand's footpaths are, I'm glad you walked it instead of me! 🤭😁🙃 It is amazing that you do have rice paddies in the middle of Bangkok.
Still a few rice paddies about, the far reaches of this line are still within Bkk, hard to believe. Great fun walking this route but smoother pavements would have saved a lot of time!
Informative and entertaining as always Mr Pat. One thing that concerns me is you traversed the length of the orange line with not a single ginger cat spotted? 🤔
Good point, maybe all camoflagued that's why l didn't see any...
Cheers for the video Pat,,,one hell of a project this is,,,,
Thanks!
This is so calming to watch, great stuff as always Pat
Thanks mate, calming is a unique way of describing it!!
Never envied friends who would be stuck in traffic getting to Ramkhamhaeng Uni. Looks like that new line will help a lot.
I used to stay in Ram 24 for 4 months near the Uni. Used the canal boat a lot but it gets old very fast doing it every day.
Great video Pat. Very interesting and informative. They've built the Yellow and Orange lines a bit quicker than the Elizabeth Line. Great engineering achievement.
Less tricky engineering and no plague burial sites like the Elizabeth Line!
@@BangkokPat Very true, and no different signal systems like those beyond Paddington and Liverpool Street to link up.
you even got a matching t-shirt ^_^
I made that shirt about a year before, excited that one day I would wear it.....I did in the Pratunam video (talking about future Orange Line) but nobody noticed!
you've done more than I would do. I will ride the line when it opens. well done as the song says you walked the line
Thanks mate. Yellow line is next!
.as we are thai citizens praying so hard for the West side of bkk to be finished as long as it will be
Hope so, but how long will it take.....
@@BangkokPat I'm praying for demolition to be succeeded.. I knew it hard for people who lived alongside the line but as it for your country
@@pgatovcranbrook2033 My country is both England and Thai 50-50 so I'm also praying same as you!
The best Chanel about Bangkok 👍
Thanks guy 😉
Interesting and looking forward to ride the orange line MRT.
Might be a while yet, as they haven't got the trains yet!
wow!! you spent 4 days walking from Culture center station to the end of this line, I am happy that you change you mind to take a motorcycle for the last day. If not you have one more day extra. ^^
anyway. I like your video and will keep watching.
hopefully by the end of this year MRT Orange Line will be running, great review n tx4share Pat
Another cool video, hope this will be completed when I am there! Great job reporting this Pat
Might be a while as they haven't bought the trains yet....!
Ok… I’m all caught up. Just binged the last several episodes. Haha… Looking forward to getting back over to that part of the world, this fall.
Excellent video very informative Pat, I'll be very happy once it's up and running as I live in rachada
Thanks!
Cheers KS!
Great video, I lived in D condo right next to that Foodland awwwww miss it so much
G'Day Pat , I/we do acknowledge the effort you truly put in just to keep us stranded travelers informed on how things have and are progressing there , but as for me seeing with my own shoddy two eyes , I wont be holding my breath just yet !! so thanks for another great video at making me miss BKK , I did notice some older style buildings looking good after what looks like some effort on maintenance , yep does make a difference also by the time I get there all stations should be open and running !! good for me as I can explore more , OH well just dreaming , Catchya ...
Cheers Steve, Bangkok will be a much brighter place in a decade, easier to get around, travel for work, much improved rail connections. It's taken long enough!
Bussing along Ramkhamhaeng Rd yesterday, it was nice to see the new stations with their distinct orange cladding. I was shocked to hear the line won't open until Q3 2025, your shot of the empty depot highlighting that they have no rolling stock on the way yet. You may have to mothball that t-shirt until the grand opening!
Real shame. It's great that they announce it's 97% finished but there are no trains ordered and it'll gather dust.
❤🌺😉ขอขอบคุณ แอดมินนำเสนอรถไฟฟ้าสายส้มMRT
Hi it's very informative...it means the orange line now officially operated? I'll be in Ramkhamhaeng area next week and MRT will be very convenient to take
Google maps says it is an 8-hour and 35-minute walk. When I was in Bangkok I spent a lot of time pondering the power grid. I could not imagine how repairs and maintenance are done.
Really? I did do it in instalments, apart from the bike parts the last 3 stations.
Pat... Thanks for that, if you do another you will have to borrow GTMs Bike ! Trains. Cats, canals and a ghost Dog! only thing missing were some food stalls. Oh and the new Music was good too.
Pat well done on all the effort and time in making this vlog 👏👏
I’m struggling to think of a capital city thats as busy as BKK, in the last 20 years that has built a train network like this 🤔. It’s truly remarkable, considering there’s not a major sporting event like an Olympics or World Cup that is happening. Really enjoy this set of vlogs
Cheers Jimmy, it was a lot of work but fun exploring and getting familiar with the areas, l'd make a great taxi driver with my Bkk knowledge!
Thanks for more rail videos Pat.
I was wondering about the build progress of the Purple line which goes down to Phra Pradeang and wether or not these newer stations are completed and open for business.
Cheers Ken
Not for a while south of Tao Poon, it's literally just started this month so that's at least 4yrs away.
Cool video Pat 👍
Cheers Paul mate.
Wow- that was an epic walk
Over several days but I have several of those same shirts so it might have looked like I did it in one go!!
@@BangkokPat I did think it had taken a couple of days - long way and loads of rain. But I think you said you did it over a couple of weeks? Just to say loving your channel - the videos on the BTS and MRT are so useful and the history of the Klongs is brilliant. If we are in Bangkok for longer than a few days would be great to do one of your tours.
I am glad that BKK progresses so much & the folks from the countryside, especially from the Isaan region will never lacked for work, as laborers and they could send their earned income home to their families. I've seen some people, on YT, that both husband and wife, when they starting out, came to BKK from Nong Khai, and worked and saved up until they have earned enough to build themselves a nice new home to raise their 2 sons in, and send them both to Uni, so, it's been the blessings to the workers from the countryside & to the people who live in BKK, you know, with the construction going on all the time?
I , however, can never find my way home, if I do what you're doing, BKK Pat. My sense of direction...sucks, especially at night. LOL. Thanks for keeping us Thai expats up-to-date on what's going on in Thailand. I wish my American honey would take the time so sit and watch some of these amazing clips of yours, I'm sure, he'll be amazed that the so called "3rd world" has surpassed, in some aspects, the "1st world" by a mile.
Thanks and I'm so glad you can get a glimpse of your home country evolving into something modern and ''1st world''
There are many other lines being built and I'll also cover those soon.
The thing is when this orange line is done and through to the west side, You can catch the train from Ramkamhang to the Grand Palace area easier than before. I'm not sure if we have to change the train at Cultural Center or we could ride directly to, tho.
Directly of course, when the line is all open....eventually!
love the channel total opp of Thailand bound!
Very Interesting Video, with as always your clear Information Pat. 🙏
Thanks Gert.
Brilliant, I really enjoyed this video. The Orange Line will made a huge difference to so many locals, and should reduce some of the road traffic. Has any work commenced yet on the Brown line?
Brown Line is still in discussion. It will eventually go ahead at some point.
Great video and thanks for the map as well.
Excellent job Pat!
Another great video Pat. Really enjoy your work and hoping someday to visit and buy you a refreashment in person.
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I didn't mention that of course so it would still sound exciting, but this is a train video with no trains in it!!
Thank you very much for putting so much effort into your video and keeping us all informed. Have you any latest status on the Orange line? I'm considering to buy a condo in Rama 9 and the opening of the orange line with the MRTA station would really be great to have now, rather than in two years. Many thanks in advance for any information.
These are really interesting videos you put together. Almost Zen in the way you deliver the information. When I make it to BKK, and I go on one of your walking tours (searching for the BKK Craft Beer scene maybe?), perhaps we'll get to ride it!
Thanks Mark. Look forward to it!
This is great stuff as always. Very good research🙏
Thank you very much Bkk Pat for another very enjoyable video,cheers.
This East side of the Orange Line is about to open to ease the traffic congestion near Ramkhamhaeng and Bangkapi. However, the West part passes through Sanamluang, Ratchadamnoen and Pratunam, which are crucial for tourism and business. Due to various bloody problems, we will not be able to see the second part probably until 2027.
That's a shame it will be so long, it takes a good route.
Love this content. Thank you Pat!
finally can explore the east side of river
Not quite sure when it opens though!
Great effort Pat, well done for dodging bikes on the pavement/ footway 🤣
Those bloody bikes are a menace for sure.
Maybe part of the reason for this huge traffic jam is there is barely a way to walk as Pat is demonstrating in this video or even cycle which basically no one in BKK does for commuting as in many European cities. Hope that change in the future alongside public transportations expansions.
Apparently guard rails separating sidewalks from busy roads is a luxury there.
along with Ramkhamhaeng Rd.all over this area it's very messy.busy,chaos and traffic problem very great if this road has other options to get this area by public transport.😁👌👍👍✌✌
Awesome Pat
My house is in Rom Klao area. I saw Minburi station change every day.
It looks great next to the road instead of the middle!
Aloha Pat! Great tour of a line I know nothing about. I'm curious... why did the underground go above ground? The designs of some of the new stations will be cool to see, but keeping concrete pillars out of sight is kind of nice and easy on the view of the environment. Bill
Thanks! I think it's to do with cost and time, it's more expensive to dig tunnels!
Hi Pat, have you heard any whispers of when the orange line might open up? I actually find Ramkhamhaeng quite an appealing option to live.
I read that it's 2025. they haven't even ordered any trains yet. Sad.
@@BangkokPat and there was me thinking British Rail has some serious delay issues! What a tease :-(
You certainly put some hours into making this one PAT :}
Sure did Ivor, always worth it!
thank you
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Great work!
Thank you Scott!
Oh and thanks for the Map link
Any time, cheers.
Great vid! Stay dry Pat! More storms on the way.
Thanks! I didn't get caught out and soaked, thank God!
Wonder if one can walk the klongs between the Orange Line around Min Buri & the City Line around Lat Krabang? It could make a good walk on a nice day...
I think it is possible with some organisation and a good map, and patience of course as some khlongs alongside Romklao don't have walkways. Would be a great day out!