Construction Yellow Line
The municipality of Bangkok wants to improve air quality in the capital by expanding public transport and tackling traffic jams. High concentrations of particulate matter and toxic exhaust gases create an unhealthy situation for residents.
The municipality has opened a section of the viaduct from Rama III Road to Na Ranong intersection to end the traffic congestion of the past two years during construction. Since last week, motorists can use two lanes between Rama III Road and Sunthorn Kosa Road in Klong Toey. The complete four-lane viaduct is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
The traffic jams should decrease further (and therefore better air quality) due to the various metro lines that were under construction in recent years. Test runs will soon begin for this, such as on three routes: Nonthaburi – Min Buri (Pink Line, test runs will start in July), Lat Phrao – Samut Prakan (Yellow Line, July) and Bang Sue – Taling Chan and Bang Sue – Rangsit (Red Lines , November).
Source: Bangkok Post
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Of course we will not be there with just more and better public transport. For many Thais in 2021, the car is just as sacred a cow as it was for the Dutch in the 50s. It symbolizes progress, prosperity and wealth.
What is needed is a sophisticated system in which the importance of the car is reduced in favor of public transport: the appreciation of desirable behavior and the more or less punishment of undesirable behaviour. Shall I mention a few measures that will undoubtedly cause quite a stir?
1. make it much more difficult to borrow money to buy a car
2. introducing or increasing parking rates (e.g. shopping centres)
3. a moped or bicycle from the company
4. tax benefits for people who use public transport to go to work
5. free public transport (to be financed from the profits that builders make from buildings along public transport lines)
6. encourage car sharing with others
7. less roads in the city; more one-way traffic
8. construction of free parking facilities outside the city with public transport into the city
9. carpool
10.Taxing companies that offer their employees private or free car parking
11. drastically increasing the requirements to get a driver's license
Sounds good, weak healers make stinking wounds. Continuing like this is certainly not an option. Air quality is good again today. Red messages on my app. If you don't have it on your lungs, you will get it here in Thailand in many places.
@Chris,
My gut feeling says that this is a talk for the stage.
The local car industry must continue to run, otherwise people will complain about the unemployed, the cars and mopeds provide good income for the state (PTT and concessions) and in a traffic jam with air conditioning on there is a simple way to get extra income . Electric driving will therefore take another 20 years before it catches on and in the meantime everyone lives the day as if it could be the last day.
The advantage of all those high skytrain lines is that they will still be usable in 20 years' time when the water is expected to be one meter (?) high in the streets of Bangkok.
Well,
A good one would be to demand a surcharge on the motor tax for residents of Bangkok and Nonthaburi.
Let's say a drivers certificate for Bangkok and Nonthaburi. The revenue from this certificate is used to lower the rate of the BTS, for example the first 3 stations for free.
But if these three routes are taken into use, the traffic volume will already decrease considerably.
It is wise to create sufficient scooter parking spaces under the stations. That is not the case now.
Agree, but then it will take years to get all this organized.
Simply ban the private use of cars in the parts of Bangkok where it is easy to switch to public transport. Strengthen public transport, also with electric buses within 4 years. Since public transport currently has insufficient capacity, taxis are allowed. Although taxis also pollute, they do not park and make fewer useless kilometres. Allow only zero-emission taxis within 4 years. In the future, this can then be transferred to autonomously driving emission-free taxis.
Let them start with an elementary form of car inspection / MOT. When I see the black clouds of exhaust fumes from worn-out trucks and buses..
Yes, that they first start with the car inspection. Recently the exhaust of my engine was measured with the engine 'not running'…. that's always good of course. Not surprising when you see black smoke belching pickups driving around.