Light Blue Line (Bangkok)

BMA Light Blue Line รถไฟฟ้าสายสีฟ้า
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Overview
Status	Planned
Owner	Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
Locale	Bangkok, Thailand
Termini	Pracha Songkhro Chong Nonsi
Stations	9 (Planned)
Service
Type	Monorail
System	Bangkok Mass Rapid Transit
Operator(s)	Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
History
Opened	2029 (est.)
Technical
Line length	9.5 kilometers (5.9 mi) (est.)
Electrification	Third rail ?
Operating speed	80 km/h (50 mph) ?
Route map Light Blue Line Pracha Songkhro Mit Mitri Din Daeng Makkasan Phetchaburi Phloen Chit Lumphini Suan Phlu Chong Nonsi

The Light Blue Line (Din Daeng – Sathon) is a planned monorail line to be built in Bangkok, Thailand. Its path runs along a north–south axis. This line would link the Din Daeng housing community areas, Bangkok City Hall 2, Makkasan Station (for the Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link), and the business area along Sathon Road.

The total distance of the route is approximately 9.5 km and would service 319,000 passengers per day. The line was tentatively planned to be completed by 2029.

Progress

The Yingluck Shinawatra-led Phua Thai government, elected in July 2011, decided not to pursue plans to continue the Grey Line and the Light Blue Line, citing that the lines would not be feasible within their 4-year, 10-lines priority plan. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration was invited to consider both projects but they would have to fund them. As of 2013, the BMA has taken on the Grey Line project.

As of the middle of 2014, there are no plans to implement the Light Blue line by the BMA. Given the delays in 2013 and 2014 with tendering other priority mass transit lines related to the political crisis in Thailand, it is highly unlikely that the Light Blue line will be considered by either the BMA or the MRTA for many years.

Station

The route has a total of 9 planned stations.

List of Planned Stations

Code	Station Name	Number of train platforms	Transfer
	Pracha Songkhro		MRT Orange Line: Pracha Songkro (planned)
	Mit Maitri
	Din Daeng
	Makkasan		Airport Rail Link, SRT Light Red Line: Makkasan MRT Blue Line: Phetchaburi
	Phetchaburi
	Phloen Chit		BTS Sukhumvit Line: Phloen Chit
	Lumphini		MRT Blue Line: Lumphini
	Suan Phlu
	Chong Nonsi		BTS Silom Line: Chong Nonsi Bangkok BRT: Sathon

See also

• BTS Skytrain
• Sukhumvit Line
• Silom Line
• Airport Rail Link (Bangkok)
• Bangkok Metro
• MRT Blue Line
• MRT Brown Line
• MRT Grey Line
• MRT Orange Line
• MRT Pink Line
• MRT Purple Line
• MRT Yellow Line
• SRT Red Lines
• Bangkok BRT