New websites; BMTA and citybus.

[pong]

To inform you:
our freinds at the BMTAhave completely revamped their website. So the stories about the lady-buses as new etc are gone. It however is now even more difficult to find a numeric list of all busroutes, and the former (in Thai only) partly-complete list of additional routes (nrs >1001-1515 or so) has been fully lost. www.bmta.co.th
When at See-Ed bookshop, i also noted that both versions of the busguide have re-issued, and they show all the new routes. By bangkokguide and by PN-maps. In Thai only, and they both come with a map, book+mapo is 50 bt.
I made a thread about the new citybuses coming into town, but strangely I cannot find it any morehere. Well, anyway, the new yellow buses are now also appearing (besides the 8,92, 539, 542) on routes 115 (silom-Minburi, but also extended to RomKlao!) and the 40 (sai Thai-Chinatown-HLpong-MBK-Sukhumvit-Ekamai-Lamsali), but not extended further.
There is a new website; www.citybus.co.th, ONLY in Thai now which has nice pictures and info. Seems the new comp's HQ are in RomKlao, as is the depot+gas filling station, this explaining why this Keha suddenly gets somuch routes. Seems to have nothing to do with the new all-white metrobus, replacing the microbus.
These new yellow buses must give the new white a run for their money: they are abouty the same design from China, have conductors, more seats (as they are longer) make the same stops and have the normal BMTA-distance fares, 12-24 bt, whereas the white buses are 30 bt, exact fare and unlike the old microbuses, do not do seat-only.

[gwmss15]

The 1000 plus routes are the nonthaburi metro buses and the truck services plus a few bus routes like 1013 and 1215 in upper sukhumvit (onnut 77 and paknam areas)

I never knew such a list of bus routes existed.

By the way the Bangkok bus guide is available in English from B2S and Asia books shops. its 5th edition now this includes the airport routes. But its only 90% accurate as some routes are missing read: nonthaburi metro routes and truck services.

[pong]

these are not just a very few, in fact there are well over 200 of them, just as the 1501 you describe to ''Bangkok Beach'' from BangKhunTien/BangBon. Most are run with red songhthaew, a very few routes have big buses (like the 1001/2/3 west of Non'buri toward Bang Yai/BuaTong etc.), many have the red minibuses, same type (in fact many green minibuses, withdrawn from normal lines, have gone to these secondary routes). As I said, the old BMTA-website had, in Thai only, an incomplete list of them. I collected a (possibly also not 100% complete) list of them during my travels across all of BKK/BMA-area. There is a very accessible whole lot of them in the area between Satorn and the Ram III/river road.
Also very many starting around Minburi market (often big blue songhthaews, going to villages around, up to 15/20 kms furhter on. I've also when Swampy airport was being contructed, made a square=4 sides trip around it by using them. Very nice ''explorative'' travels may be made by them. Oh, and every few years a few new ones get added, though they usually existed before as ''semi-legal'' to some new Mu-Ban etc. the whole list from 1502 upward is thus.