never do. Start to end travel times are estimated at 15 minutes for Express and around 30 minutes for the City Line.

At the highway which runs parallel up to an hour and increasing since the car traffic continuously expands, this figure does not include the time to reach the highway which can easily be longer than the whole road travel time on the highway. The motorway to the airport also takes most traffic to the south-east of Thailand such as Pattaya and Rayong Trat plus Cambodia with Koh Kong Province.

Further destinations are Chanthaburi, Ko Samet, Koh Chang and the most important deep sea port at Leam Chabang. Here around are also most car manufacturer such as Toyota Ford and GM Honda is in the vicinity of Ayutthaya.

Airport raillink traffic is estimated at 4000 passengers per hour per direction at the beginning and could reach 50,000passenger by 2030. Bangkok City Line is a commuter operation, will be much more busy, starting at about 37,000 and reaching about 200.000 184,000 by 2030.

The Airport underground Terminal

The half hour travel time from the Phayathai terminal in the city center to the underground station at the other end is about 30 minutes. That sounds not bad but as usual, it is not organized properly because the train intervals are around 30 minutes and with that there are a real lot of people already waiting at the platform.

What is the result?

Most of the time the station is cram packed with people and they have a problem to get into wagons. The