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Lots of cities have some long interchanges - Paris, for example. But I never saw such a lack of co-ordination in the joining up of interchange stations. Even super-busy (by BKK standards) ones like Asoke have no bridging or such to facilitate the change. But BKK runs the lines as competitors, hence the lack of such helpful infrastructure as well as lack of interest in common ticketing. "We gave the poor a train, but they still want more," say the top families that make the money from the projects. Never forget that the object of a major road or rail construction is to line certain pockets, not for us to actually use..........

Why do you want indicator boards? You unaware which platform you on/ which direction you going? How difficult can it be to navigate BKK systems? It's not exactly Seoul, fer chrrisssake. And I'm not defensive. I spend most of my waking hours cursing Thais, but one thng they do rather well is keep their trains clean and I appreciate it. You need optical advice, as I suggested. If you live away from a railway, it's not exactly the railway company's fault. But I assume you think differently. Get a limo.

wow. Temple chosen for NYE. A temple! There is nothing else in Thailand to see. Of course that's what they choose. A local newspaper today featured "one-day trips" around BKK. Guess what? Every single one was a temple. Seen one, seen 'em all, I say.

Just like the UK itself. Don't forget they sold off the embassy...... it's a dirty little office in a block down the wrong end of Silom these days.

Then you need a white stick, which ironically would not get you a seat. The trains are clean and, remarkably, free of graffiti But at least in HKG there's the wonderful Octopus card, good for every transport mode and much more. That, as has been said by several posters, is the really stupid thing about BKK's systems.

90,000 billion baht is approx two and a half trillion US dollars, around half the US national debt. Thailand is not worth that much, let alone herbs. As so often, one is left wondering how much comes out of Thai officials' mouths and how much from the other end.

more than usually demonstrably nonsensical. Let's just make the maths easy and say 24 million punters. To reach "24 trillion baht" they each have to spend 100,000 baht (nearly USD2,800). Half that number are Malaysians on cross-burder days out. I never met a Thai in or outside the tourism industry who believed a word the authorities said; this is a proof of why.

The H is for Heinz, which owns it, or perhaps for Holland where it's made. The P is what they are taking.....

But the graffiti is much neater as they have both hands free.

I was about to say the same. Three times in my earlier years living central I had to move from spacious and very agreeable condos as construction started, and it was not so well regulated then as to hours. More recently I located literally 30m across the border into Samut Prakan. If I do need to be in, say, Asoke, it's a reliable 20 minutes; BTS is cheaper (as far as On Nut); you can get a seat on a bus (or BTS); and I don't have to go to Chaengwattana.

prompted me to check the news. It's bad. What a genius this man was! So prolific yet I don't think I ever saw a dud. Sadly missed.

nothing new here, they're just running 30 years late. Anyway, surely what's described in the OP is not a "baht bus" but a shuttle service?

Getting really serious (and this is true) Adolphe Sax was Belgian. He invented the saxophone! And running a London pub is Belgian Frans Schepperdsbusch

well, if you're going to get serious, Rene Magritte. If we aren't careful we may end up with more than six.......

that's Liverpool. You can see the wheels have been nicked.

that's rather the point, isn't it!

Bertrand is not French but Belgian. One of the apocryphal "six famous Belgians" that comprise him, Jacky Ickx, TinTin, Hercule Poirot and one other.

No Good g0d no! No But I tried my SIM in another phone that Ikeep as a spare, and the dreaded alert did not appear although the dreaded DTAc cr@p did. I suspect that without rooting (the phone, that is), I'm not going to solve this.

No, of course not. I'm in BKK, where did you think I was?

You would think in England it would be sirening 24 hours a day. What a #####

ok so you don't see it, which was part of the question some days ago. The source was the one you now quote. What's this about "your phone (or your government)"? Helpful as ever.............

cheers but the last of these is already turned off, yet as I said earlier the app is still in the apps-list and has no means of turning off all the permissions. What puzzles me most is that I am fairly sure it only appeared today, or very recently. I'm it may be a security problem.

4 years old (the actual card, not just the a/c)

Cheers, but not possible. The dtac app just automatically reappears every time I insert the sim. It's usually quite benign - but I cant see whether it's caused this alerts thing.