1. BTS Ferrari (replacing BTS Ratchadamri)

We're actually not quite sure why there is a BTS station there. You're either working as a maid in the hotel, and taking the free bus, or you're eating and drinking at the hotel, and you showed up in a Ferrari.

2. BTS Robuchon (replacing BTS Chong Nonsi)

If anyone can afford to buy BTS Chong Nonsi, it's gotta be Pace Development. But BTS Mahanakhon sounds confusing, since, well, all of Bangkok is the Mahanakhon. This sounds so much more chic and French.

3. BTS Asiatique (replacing BTS Saphan Taksin)

Since there's still controversy as to whether the station should stay open, why don't they just make the trains there dip into the Chao Phraya and hover straight to Asiatique. That's the only reason to get off at that stop anyway, right? That, or BTS Jok Prince.

Photo: Hajime Nakano

4. BTS Glorious Shopping Phenomenon (replacing BTS Siam)

We never quite got over the tagline for Paragon when it opened. It epitomized the fantastic awesomeness of copywriting in this town, and the shivers that go down our spine every time we see a billboard with an English slogan.

5. BTS Bunnag (replacing BTS Krung Thonburi)

Well, you’ve come this far. Our only explanations: you’re looking for a far-off land to die, or you’re heading to Duangrit Bunnag’s Jam Factory for a poetry reading or some acoustic folk shindig. You’ll still need to hail a cab, mind. Pack pillows.

6. BTS Pizza (replacing BTS Sala Daeng)

First pizza truck Pizza Massilia opened shop, now there’s the news Pizza Pala Romana is to open a second branch here. We declare Silom Road the pizza capital of Bangkok, if not Thailand or the world. Anything to take our minds off the overcrowded sidewalks, mindless office drones and ping pong.

7. BTS Ekkamai East (replacing BTS Phra Khanong)

Go on, admit it. There’s no good coffee east of Ink & Lion and no decent dance-floor beyond Wine Bibber. (Romancest doesn’t count.) You were sold a lie.