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BTS Investigation
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s ‘rushed’ decision to extend the BTS Company’s contract to run the Skytrain for a further 13 years, when 17 years were still left to go, had trainwreck written all over it from the start. But it could well make for fascinating repercussions. The Pheu Thai Party last week ordered an investigation into the B190 billion deal, which it branded ‘illegitimate’ and insinuated could be in breach of price collusion laws. That it was the subsidiary Krungthep Thanakom, and not the BMA itself, that signed off on the renewal seems already to be some sort of admission of guilt. Of course, it’s the passengers who are said to benefit most over the next 30 years, through lower fares and more carriages, but if the city’s newfound sense of urgency sticks, Bangkokians might be left wondering just how much else could go down in Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra’s final eight months in office.