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Lake Muang Thong Thani MRT Station
Lake Muang Thong Thani station (station code MT02) is a Bangkok MRT station on the Pink Line extension to Muang Thong Thani, commonly known as Muang Thong Thani Line. The station is located above Soi Chaengwattana-Pak Kret 39, near the Impact Lakeside event space, Thunderdome Stadium and Thunderdome. It is the terminus of the Muang Thong Thani spur line. Trains arrive to this station every 10 minutes normally, but every 5 minutes during rush hour or when there are events. The Station has 4 exits. Muang Thong Thani Line is a spur line of the Pink Line, linking to the Muang Thong Thani development in the city of Pak Kret, Nonthaburi province, in Greater Bangkok. The station is located between the two sides of the Udon Ratthaya Expressway and above the traffic circle where Soi Chaengwattana-Pak Kret 39 is crossed by Popular Road (the street leading into the Impact complex). The spur line branches off from the main Pink Line at Muang Thong Thani MRT station on Chaeng Watthana Roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Rapid Transit Authority Of Thailand
Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand or MRTA () is a state enterprise under the Ministry of Transport of Thailand. It is responsible for the operation of rapid transit systems in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region and including other provinces as defined by the royal decree. The MRTA was founded in 1992 and underwent restructuring in 2000. The MRTA currently oversees the operation of the MRT, which consists of the operational Blue Line, Purple Line, Yellow Line, and Pink Line. The MRTA also operate several Park and ride buildings along the route of the lines. Other rapid transit lines, including the Airport Rail Link, are owned and operated by other agencies. History The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand was established in 1992 under the name Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority, under the Royal Decree Establishment of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority B.E. 2535, with the objective of organizing mass transportation systems in Bangkok and its vicinity by electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udon Ratthaya Expressway
The Udon Ratthaya Expressway (), also known as the Bang Pa-in–Pak Kret Expressway (), is an expressway in Thailand, located in Nonthaburi province, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani province, Pathum Thani and Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya provinces. The expressway is a controlled-access toll road. History Udon Ratthaya Expressway was proposed to handle road traffic for the 1998 Asian Games, 13th Asian Games which were held at Thammasat University Rangsit Campus in 1998. It was also aimed at reducing road traffic on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Vibhavadi Rangsit and Phahonyothin Road, Phahon Yothin roads leading northwards out of Bangkok. The first section between Chaeng Watthana–Chiang Rak was opened on 2 December 1998. It is a continuation of the Si Rat Expressway Section C. The second section between Chiang Rak–Bang Sai was opened on 1 November 1999. According to an official EXAT annual report, the expressway was used by 25,842,029 cars in the 2022 fisca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanjanapas Family
The Kanjanapas family () is a Thai business family of Teochew Chinese origin, belonging to the Huang/Wong (黃) clan. It owns businesses in Hong Kong and Thailand, including Stelux Holdings, Bangkok Land and BTS Group Holdings. The family was founded by Mongkol Kanjanapas () or Wong Chue Meng ( zh, 黃子明; 1919–2003), who was born in Bangkok to an immigrant Chinese father. He did business in Thailand, and was a shareholder in Siam City Bank, before moving to Hong Kong. There, in 1963, he founded Stelux Holdings, whose business grew from producing Seiko watches. Mongkol had eleven children, including sons Anant (1941–2020) and Keeree (born 1950). Most of the family settled in Hong Kong under the name Wong, though Anant and Keeree moved back to Thailand during the 1980s–1990s for business opportunities. Anant headed real estate developer Bangkok Land, while Keeree led Tanayong (later known as BTS Group Holdings, BTSG), the developer of Bangkok's first mass transit sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangkok Land
Bangkok Land Public Company Limited is a real estate company in Thailand. It is best known as the developer of Muang Thong Thani, a large residential development in Bangkok's northern suburb city of Pak Kret in Nonthaburi Province. Bangkok Land was founded by Mongkol Kanjanapas of the Kanjanapas family in 1973. Mongkol's son Anant returned from Hong Kong to Thailand and headed the company from 1989, and it enjoyed spectacular growth in the early 1990s amid Thailand's bubble economy, becoming the highest-valued company on the Stock Exchange of Thailand following its listing in 1992. It was then hard hit by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which saw its market value shrinking a hundred-fold from US$5.2 billion to $36 million, but the family was able to hold on to control of the company following restructuring. Bangkok Land was able to return to profitability through Impact, Muang Thong Thani, one of the largest convention and exhibition centres in Southeast Asia, which is managed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact, Muang Thong Thani
Impact, Muang Thong Thani () is a commercial complex consisting of the Impact Arena, a convention centre, and exhibition halls, located in Muang Thong Thani in Pak Kret District of Nonthaburi Province, a northern suburb of Bangkok, Thailand. It has been considered as the second largest exhibition and convention venue in Asia with an indoor floor space of over 140,000 sqm. Its Challenger Hall is currently the world's largest column-free exhibition hall. The venue hosts over 490 events and welcomes over 15 million visitors each year. History Impact, Muang Thong Thani originated as the Muang Thong Thani Sports Complex, built for the 1998 Asian Games by real estate developer Bangkok Land. Bangkok Land is the developer of Muang Thong Thani, a real estate development envisioned in 1989 as a satellite city of Bangkok. It grew rapidly among Thailand's economic boom of the early 1990s, but became ruined financially when the bubble burst in the lead-up to the 1997 Asian financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTS Group Holdings
BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited (BTSG), formerly known as Tanayong Public Company Limited, is a public company in Thailand. It is the majority share holder of Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), the operator of the BTS Skytrain and the Bangkok BRT. Businesses BTSG does business in several areas: mass transit (through the Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited), media/advertising (through VGI Global Media), property/real estate (through property developer U City and hotel operator U Hotels & Resorts), and associated service businesses. BTSG has holdings in 57 subsidiaries, jointly controlled companies, or associated firms, it groups its operations into three segments "MOVE", "MIX" and "MATCH". Monorail Joint venture A BSR Joint Venture between BTSG, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction PCL and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL also hold the concession to build and operate the Pink Line and Yellow Line via two subsidiaries, Northern Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Pink Line
The MRT Pink Line () is an elevated monorail line of the MRT in Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. The monorail line is long and has 30 stations. It runs in the northern part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area from Nonthaburi Civic Center in Pak Kret district, Nonthaburi along the major east–west transport corridor of Highway 304 (Chaeng Wattana and Ram Inthra roads) to terminate at Min Buri in Min Buri district in east Bangkok. It opened for free public trial operation on 21 November 2023 with then Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin taking the inaugural ride. The line is designed to link the northern areas of Bangkok and Nonthaburi by connecting with three existing and three future mass transit lines. At Nonthaburi Civic Center the line interchanges with the MRT Purple Line and the proposed MRT Brown Line. The line also interchanges with the SRT Dark Red Line, the BTS Sukhumvit Line and the planned BMA Grey Line. At the Min Buri terminus, the line interchanges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact Muang Thong Thani MRT Station
Impact Muang Thong Thani station (station code MT01) is a Bangkok MRT station on the Pink Line extension to Muang Thong Thani, commonly known as Muang Thong Thani Line. It mainly serves Impact, Muang Thong Thani, to which the station is connected via a skybridge; Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University; as well as the surrounding area. The Station has 4 exits. Muang Thong Thani Line is a spur line of the Pink Line, linking to the Muang Thong Thani development in the city of Pak Kret, Nonthaburi province, in Greater Bangkok. The station is located between the two sides of the Udon Ratthaya Expressway and above the traffic circle where Soi Chaengwattana-Pak Kret 39 is crossed by Popular Road (the street leading into the Impact complex). The spur line branches off from the main Pink Line at Muang Thong Thani MRT station on Chaeng Watthana Road, where it is served by a single platform. It turns into Soi Chaengwattana-Pak Kret 39 (one of the main roads into Mueang Thong Thani) and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaeng Watthana Road
Highway 304 is a national highway of Thailand, leading from the Bangkok suburb city of Pak Kret to Nakhon Ratchasima in the country's Northeast. It forms the main link between the eastern and northeastern regions, and is one of the major alternative routes into the Northeast (the main route from Bangkok being Mittraphap Road, Highway 2). The highway is known by several names along its route. Chaeng Watthana Road () begins at Pak Kret in Nonthaburi Province, and leads eastward (and slightly south) to Wat Phra Sri Mahathat station in Bangkok's Bang Khen District, where it crosses Phahon Yothin Road and from there becomes known as Ram Inthra Road (, also spelled Ram Intra or Ramindra) until it reaches Min Buri in Bangkok's eastern fringes. It then becomes known as Suwinthawong Road () towards the town of Chachoengsao. From there, it continues mostly northeastward through the eastern province of the same name, past the town of Phanom Sarakham, then enters Prachin Buri P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muang Thong Thani MRT Station
Muang Thong Thani station () is a Bangkok MRT station on the Pink Line. The station is located on Chaeng Watthana Road in Pak Kret district, Nonthaburi province. The station has four exits and act an interchange between the Pink Line main line and the Muang Thong Thani Line which serves Muang Thong Thani and IMPACT. The station opened on 21 November 2023 as part of trial operations on the entire Pink Line main line. The station was initially named "Si Rat" while the current Si Rat station was named "Muang Thong Thani", but the names were swapped to accommodate and prevent confusion for which station to change at for the Impact spur line. The station consists of one side platform and one island platform. See also Other interchange stations in Bangkok with paid area integration. * Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal (Bang Sue Grand Station) * Siam BTS station * Tao Poon MRT station * Wat Phra Sri Mahathat station Wat Phra Sri Mahathat station (, , ) is a BTS Skytrain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Bangkok
The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) (; ; ), may refer to a government-defined "political definition" of the urban region surrounding the metropolis of Bangkok, or the built-up area, i.e., urban agglomeration of Bangkok, Thailand, which varies in size and shape, and gets filled in as development expands. The political definition is defined as the metropolis and the five adjacent provinces of Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, and Samut Sakhon. Area and population The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (political definition) covers an area of 7,762 km2. Due to the success of the service and tourism industry in Bangkok, the city has gained in popularity for work among provincial Thais from the rural areas and with people from many countries in the Indochina region as well as many South Asian countries. Since around the turn of the century, there has been a large influx of Indians into Thailand (especially Punjabis, Gujaratis, Tamils and Pashtuns), and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Bangkok Monorail
BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited (BTSG), formerly known as Tanayong Public Company Limited, is a public company in Thailand. It is the majority share holder of Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), the operator of the BTS Skytrain and the Bangkok BRT. Businesses BTSG does business in several areas: mass transit (through the Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited), media/advertising (through VGI Global Media), property/real estate (through property developer U City and hotel operator U Hotels & Resorts), and associated service businesses. BTSG has holdings in 57 subsidiaries, jointly controlled companies, or associated firms, it groups its operations into three segments "MOVE", "MIX" and "MATCH". Monorail Joint venture A BSR Joint Venture between BTSG, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction PCL and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL also hold the concession to build and operate the Pink Line and Yellow Line via two subsidiaries, Northern Bang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
