fareastguy

Probably one of the staff overdoing the locally manufactured "whitening cream"

City police want bus lanes to prevent traffic jams from disrupting public transport.

Officials want cycle lanes to promote a new mode of transport & get cars off the road.

Government needed more votes.. so what did it do?

Give a huge tax incentive for the public to buy more cars... incredible!!

T.I.T

Sleeping busdrivers! Drugged ferry-captains! Kamakazi minivan-drivers! Drugged/drunk cardrivers!

Weekly derailments!

Seems like the only way to survive in Thailand, is to stay home, and post on Thaivisa!!

If I stay home the wife would kill me !!

We've all seen what happens to the "coyote" when you strap a rocket on it's back!!

Why a high speed train for just 225 kilometres, just a service a bit faster than the "cattle truck chug machine" that they use now would be more appropriate!

Surely a high speed link for the greater distances from north/south or even cross border links would make the best sense.

Febrile.

The tank must have thought long and hard to come up with that word.

It was probably a spelling mistake!!

If the government was truly concerned about individual (poor) farmers who were in debt, then why didn't they target them directly.

I'm sure they could have set up a system with the bank whereby a farmers debt could have been written off & paid by the government, thus cutting out the "rice miller middleman" and saving untold billions in graft/corruption.

The rice market prices would have been as they should be, leaving the farmers to sell their present crops as normal, also no stock piles of rotting rice to try to hide.

But that's what common sense say's, not what the "Shin dynasty" want!!

Can't wait for the "Trillion baht" high speed trains to start running.. daily news then will be hundreds dead every day instead of the slower trains & just a few injuries..

New rolling stock and maybe even new rails, but the problem lays with using the same ground beneath the rails & Thai mentality towards safe engineering practices & maintenance.

I gave up traveling by coaches because of the rising death tolls, gave up mini-buses because of the drivers with a death wish, gave up driving myself because of the same thing & traffic jams, gave up my motorcycle because that was just a hospital appointment waiting to happen, even got knocked off my pedal bike.. now with weekly derailments how am I supposed to get around.. and please don't reply with "Fly"

I don't trust those "pesky spirits" either !!

Just as an open question:

Has the "monarchy" ever refused to endorse a bill submitted by any government.. believing it not to be in the best interests of the "Kingdom"

510 baht cash ...wow ...... I am really amazed by the young age of those kids ....16 yo and already in a gang ... where are the parents ?

In the grown up gang?

Just what I was thinking,

With mum probably doing business in Walking street & father doing his dodgy business in the next road along!

Next year little "sister" will probably be big enough to come along too, shame granny was feeling tired this year!

Seems to me that every day more and more opposition to this shambles of an amnesty bill comes out of the woodwork and into the open.

As far as I can see, there is only one single entity that wants this bill approved and that is PTP.

Even the red shirts hate it. Almost all other parties hate it. The man in the street hates it and 99% of foreign commentary is against it as proven on this very website.

How in the hell can it ever get approved? Yet I bet it does if that is what the PTP want.

All this for one exiled criminal who is more of a danger to this country and its constitution than he was when he was properly in power.

And just exactly when did the Shin "dynasty" ever give a real s**t for what the rest of the population think, regardless of colour?

Just wait & see what happens when Khun Thaksin steps off the plane as the returning hero of Thailand.. you ain't seen nothing yet!!

Not wanting to promote crime in Thailand but I do hope there's a bullet with his name on it, and one day when his guard is down he'll step in front of it!!

And they wonder why crime keeps rising. Penalties like this are hardly a deterrent.

500 baht fine for armed assault with "intent" to cause injury.. hardly going to stop street crime in it's tracks & send a message to scammers that tourists are best left alone!

But then again.. an amnesty bill for all crimes committed over the last 10 years for politicians (and those who have fled) is hardly going to send the right message to the whole of Thailand!!!

The judicial system (if you can call it that) or even the Thai system as a whole is beyond belief.

It will be the same as it is every year.

I quite agree, once a bottle of "chiang" is thrown down the hatch the party will continue as always.. loud music & lewd girls!

Thai style knees up!

Was it just a week ago, that Madame Yingluck said "Your safety is our main concern!!"

Hope those who died didn't suffer!!

Yes, it was certainly the PM's fault that this bus crashed.

Perspective.

In fact she is to blame

She runs the current government and they have yet to address the issue of driver training proper safety standards and enforcement of a proper driving code. Until the government acts in a correct fashion these type of accidents will continue

Time for the people in power to take action instead of being solely concerned about bring home the a hole from dubuy

While I am saddened to hear of the deaths of tourists caught up in traffic related accidents I have no lasting concerns for the Thai people involved, it's their country and it's how they choose to live, unlike many "posties" here I am not in such a rush to change things.

I came to Thailand a long time ago to break away from the "nanny state" in which my home country was fast becoming.

What you have here in fact is "FREEDOM OF CHOICE" & I have no desire to try to turn Thailand into a replica of where I came from.. otherwise what was the point of coming here in the first place?

If you don't like the transport system don't use it.. if you don't like Thai drivers, stay off the road.

Stop bleating about every accident & get used to living in Thailand !!

If you want a nanny state go back home!!

Where I live it appears to be just after they take their first breath..

Don't you just love these people who go to another country and try to change it to a nanny state!!

I say "hands off" this is Thailand!!

So quick to bust the "farang" but not intelligent enough to wait a while and follow it through to nab the contact person, or even find out and arrest who was at the top of the smuggling syndicate as well.

It is a welcoming thought that here in thailand shootings are not as prevalent as in the USA , probably arising from the vast number of guns in circulation in the USA

Many of us are saddened by the continued killings on busses and minibusses by the drivers who are out of control, maybe a few more USA guns on the busses might make the drivers think a little

It would be much nicer to hear minibus bus driver shot by American who saved all the passengers from almost certain death

Yeah trust the "Yanks" to save the day, all guns blazing will cure all.

Just like the recent shooting in California of a 13 year old by Police for carrying a replica!!

We don't need a "shoot first" ask questions later mentality over here.. just education & an overhauled justice system!

Should be getting used to these accidents by now.

Just another day in paradise!!

Not quite the "high end" big spending tourist her indoors was thinking of fleecing sorry I mean attracting!!

Quote: The monk novice confessed to the crime, and was promptly defrocked.

Wow.. defrocked twice.. "that's a bummer" (pun intended)

The post stated that the aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions, obviously the airline didn't have the foresight to check how bad the "tail-end" of storm front Nari would have on flying conditions & safety.

It's the pilots duty to check the weather charts before planning his/her flight route, maybe their error in judgement for taking the flight up, or pressure from the airline to keep to schedule?

Same result I'm afraid to say, these are not accidents because as with most things they are avoidable!

I know hind sight is a wonderful thing, but it is something we can all learn from!

Condolences to families & friends concerned.

I think the present "governor" of Phuket should get his hand out of the till & start to do his proper duties as a mayor of the popular tourist resort...

The story of the "golden goose" springs to mind!!

The orange rain boots are only available to the "chosen" ones?

Cheap!

Should they happen to go "tits up" they can easily be found under the murky surface and rescued!!

Not left to fend for themselves or drown like the rest of the nation!!

As an after thought didn't someone in a rather prominent position say it this was to be all over soon!!

Does he suggest that the trains drive on the other side also?

Trains also have problems staying on the right track, a bit like the "four wheeled" variety on the roads.

Left side, right side it's all a bit of a nonsense, even the best of the Thai drivers are far behind the rest of the world in respects to road competence & safety.

If the government decide to switch lanes you probably wouldn't notice any change outside on the asphalt, or should I say concrete!!