{"id":20,"date":"2025-06-22T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-06-22T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:04:44","slug":"phukets-famous-pink-buses-go-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/phukets-famous-pink-buses-go-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Phuket&#8217;s famous pink buses go electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phuket&#8217;s pink Pho Thong buses have gone green!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The iconic vehicles have been replaced by 24 Chinese-made electric buses at an eyewatering 5 million baht per vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation (PPAO), Rewat Areerob confirmed the old buses have since been donated to local schools, temples, mosques, and charitable organisations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"strawpoll_e2naXJrmzyB\" class=\"strawpoll-embed\">The new blue and white EV buses are now in operation across the Island:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Yellow Line (Saphan Hin to Central Phuket) Seven buses on timetable.<\/li>\n<li>Green Line (Ratsada Pier to Baan Kathu School) Seven buses on timetable.<\/li>\n<li>Red Line (Chalong Pier to SuperCheap) Ten buses on timetable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phuket&#8217;s pink Pho Thong buses have gone green! The iconic vehicles have been replaced by 24 Chinese-made electric buses at an eyewatering 5 million baht per vehicle. President of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phuket-news-today","category-thailand-news-today","tag-phuket","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}