Bangkok commuters faced disruption yesterday morning as heavy rain caused traffic jams in several areas and an MRT subway station to temporarily close.
Traffic was heavily congested in inbound lanes of Sukhumvit road, while soi Lasalle was inundated, stranding small vehicles. Traffic was slow down Sritepa intersection on Srinakarin road.
The traffic on Lat Phrao road was also congested as vehicles piled up in the slippery and poor conditions.
The MRT Rama 9 station went out of order, stranding passengers back up the line at other MRT stations before operations resumed at 9am.
"Once I stepped on Lat Phrao MRT station's escalator, I could see almost a hundred people lining up to pass through the bag checking spot,"said passenger Nonlanee Panthachotirat.
"What was even worse, the station didn't turn on its air conditioners on the ticket booth floor and I had to wait for quite sometimes to get down to the platform. It took me 30 minutes to finally get in an overcrowded train and another 40 minutes to reach Queen Sirikit Centre station which normally takes only 15 minutes," she said.