New/old Car Policy For Bkk?

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Fixed the link in TTMs original post.

 

Sanuk!

[think_too_mut]

Good comment here in the article...

 

"As happens so often in Thailand, we are given a reason which does not quite make sense. This invariably means there is a real reason behind it which has something to do with someone making money.

I have been in countless jams in Bangkok and don't recall ever seeing the cause to be an old car. The most common things jamming it up are simply selfish drivers who don't care _ such as parking two abreast at the side of the road or blocking the lane to do a U-turn where they shouldn't. These are [the people] who should be getting tickets,"

 

Whoever made the comment, does not understand that Bangkok was on the canals, the blood venes of the city. Then, the cars came. Unimportant roads suddenly became what we see now as traffic jams.

 

To widen the roads and streets? Expropriations of land, demolishing houses and neigborhoods, legal battles, too late. It will never get better. It's been chaotic, from the core before the advent of the cars, that can not be solved. Whoever tries to solve it, won't be re-elected. Might even be booted out of the office while attempting.

 

You need China-like authorithies who go for purpose (and don't fear elections) to fix it. In a much less ceremonial way : some neigborhoods are there today, they are not there tomorrow. And the road goes.

[cavanami]

A good start would be to enforce the existing traffic laws!

 

The illegal u-turns, the double and triple parking, keep the buses in the left lanes and not racing in the far right lanes, etc!!!