After 12 years of continuous service, Bangkok's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) -- a 15-km feeder bus route linking Sathon and Ratchaphruek roads -- should have been more popular, the way similar systems in Bogota and Guangzhou have been embraced by those cities' residents.
Unfortunately, this isn't the case with the BRT. Locals believe the area deserves a more modern mass-transit system, for example, a monorail. Meanwhile, motorists blame the route's design for compounding the area's traffic woes, as traffic often grinds to a halt whenever an accident takes place along the route, or whenever traffic police stop cars from entering BRT lanes.
