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@ExpatOilWorker I notice you didn't post the video of the petrol station fire in Pattaya. Weird, anyone would think you might be biased.

Also another reason why you take any video EOW posts with a massive bucket of salt. It is tiresome - no context to the videos, no write up of what happened, just anti-Chinese nonsense. Getting very very boring now.

I agree. I have been at Nai Harn in conditions like this. The yellow and red flags we really close together and they were only letting people go in a narrow area where they could see what was going on and intervene. Sadly people do think they can go where they want and they do their best to control it. Inside those two flags was really rough. Outside the flags was just too dangerous. RIP to the poor guy, so sad. And to think there's one idiot who constantly posts on here that Thailand doesn't have dangerous seas or currents.

Not any more. The ARL was handed over to Asia Era One - a private CP-led consortium - maybe 2-3 years ago. Before that it was run by the SRTET which is the same company as the red line.

We'll agree to differ then. Maintenance was definitely an issue under the SRT (which is Thailand's most incompetent government agency)( but hopefully under Asia Era One it will be better. They already improved the stations adding better signage, better access, and TOILETS!! But time will tell. Safety? There's never been an accident on the ARL as far as I am aware. I remember one on the KLIA express when two trains collided. The entire thing was also suspended a few years ago for a couple of years only returning to full service last year. It's not faster either, both systems run at 160kmh, but it may seem that way as it covers a much longer distance and doesn't stop like the ARL does I am at BKK now, having travelled on the ARL from town and it was fast, cheap, and comfortable and dropped me right in the airport. I think it has it's flaws but overall it is a decent system. Finally, the KLIA Express takes you to KL which is a turdhole. the ARL takes you in to Bangkok. 🙂 Agree to disagree.

Not correct according to Richard Barrow. The metre gauge terminal Vientiane station is about 25 minutes away from the standard gauge high speed Vientiane station. Different places entirely. https://x.com/RichardBarrow/status/1800046052781019194

No.

It is ten times the price, there's one comparison.

What amazing insight. And what have you based that enlightened opinion on?

Eh? there's no such thing as Easyflow, and what is this 28 day cycle? Easypass is a device that you top up online (or in physical offices) and you are deducted every time you pass a toll. You need to make sure you have credit or the gate won't open. Works on most expressways if not all (it didn't use to work on the Don Muang tollway but don't know if that has changed). You have an RFID device stuck on your windscreen that the gates read. M Pass is exactly the same and is interchangeable. Originally Easy Pass was for the number 7 and other Bangkok expressways excluding the ring road (number 9). M Pass was for the ring road and excluded everything else. A few years ago they made them interchangeable so Easy Pass and M Pass both work on the same tolls. M Flow is something different. There is no RFID device, you register your car online and the cameras recognise when you pass - there are no toll gates. You can be charged on your credit card or direct debit, or you can pay monthly. This only works on the number 9 ring road currently. They are supposed to roll out M Flow for all tollways this year but I haven't seen anything happening - probably why they won't issue the OP a new M Pass because it is being superceded.

Yep, Picadilly Line King's Cross to LHR would cost £6.90 / 315 baht, take an hour, be packed, no seats, no luggage space, and have about 20 stops. And no aircon. Or you can take the Heathrow Express form Paddington for £25 / 1,165 THB for a 15 minute journey. You'll probably get a seat. By the way this is the most expensive train journey in the world per passenger mile. Or the ARL from Phaya Thai to Suvaranabhuni is 45 baht / 95 British pence. Aircon, fast, convenient, ends up right in the basement below departures, unlike the Heathrow Express. I know which I would prefer. @rabang is just a basher with no argument. "Narrow"?? It's the same width as any other train.

Hilarious nonsense. So they spend billions/trillions so it easier to control protests if they want to hold them in the government capital? Really??

Yes, it is much improved. Very very pleasantly surprised after going back for the first time in 15+ years. The pier is much better and more organised. There is also now a high speed catamaran service from Ban Phe. I haven't used it as I prefer to go by speedboat but it looks very nice. The only development I don't like is that speedboats from the mainland now can't drop you directly on your beach. Every boat has to dock at the main pier, and then there is an organised set up to pay the park fee. It is way more organised and makes sense, but I did like just rocking up on a speedboat right outside your hotel. The road is now a proper road. And even the 7-Elevens there don't give out plastic bags. It's clean.

They are every ten minutes in off peak. Every 6 minutes or so in peak times.

They were a vile gang who committed terrible acts of depravity. No one argues with that. However, because Yaxley banged his drum you think he had something to do with their conviction, whilst in fact the opposite is true and he nearly caused their trial to fail. Al because of his own selfish actions. And all so people like you would spew his nonsense verbatim and donate to his (personal) cause. He takes you for fools. And for good reason.

That's called a tide.

The Airport link has always been open. Nothing has changed. If you mean the three airport connection (DMK, BKK and Utapao), then no. But the airport link in Bangkok is working as normal.

I have said it before and I'll say it again - Yaxley doesn't care about vile monster rapists - as long as they are white, and even better if they were part of the EDL. He protected paedophiles, stood up for them, even protested to have them released from custody. What are your thoughts on this? Please answer. Yaxley didn't expose the Muslim gangs. He had nothing to do with it whatsoever. But he saw a bandwagon he could jump on to raise money (for himself). Please discuss. How did he expose these gangs? He didn't. This is just racist nonsense that doesn't deserve a response. Can you debate using adult words? "Left wing bedwetters", "vile Muslim monsters", "Islamic state". Can you actually make an argument that we can discuss?? Or do you just want to throw out racist and right wing cliches? Waiting.

Samet is clean and beautiful. I used to go often, starting from 28 years ago. I agree it got beaten and maybe 15 years ago I checked out of a three night stay - at a good resort - after one day because it was filthy. I was with my parents and it was embarrassing, we checked out and went to Centara Grand Mirage in Pattaya! Yeah, it was that bad. I didn't go back for maybe 17-18 years but went back a few years ago and was very pleasantly surprised. Been back a few times since and it is spotless, clean sand, clean water, great restaurants. My kids love it, I would recommend it to anyone (after definitely not recommending it for a long time). Thailand has cleaned up its act in many respects. Samui is another place I used to go to regularly when I first came here but stopped for a long time. Now I love it again, clean and pretty.

What the hell are you talking about? I replied to, and quoted, a poster who said: "After reading that lot, your true self has come to the fore, and it ain't pretty." And I asked if Yaxley was pretty as that was the insinuation of the poster. That was clear, don't make up claims for me please. Grown up arguments only, don't make things up.

Yaxley-Lennon does not care about paedophiles, full stop. He cares about brown ones as it gives him a bandwagon to jump on and some good fund raising opportunities. He has a history of, at best, ignoring paedophilia is his own organisation, or, at worst, defending paedophiles in his own organisation. He not only defended Richard Price but he led campaigns to have him released! Disgusting paedophile defending hypocrite. He also - despite warnings - jeopardised the trials of the grooming gangs and almost caused them to be released or re-trialled.. All for his own ends. No concern for justice, only concern for his bank balance. And yet his knuckle dragging followers think the grooming gangs were caught because "he wasn't afraid to speak out" which is just laughable. He didn't care / didn't know and only got involved when the case was very advanced and he saw a bandwagon. And then he nearly caused justice not to be done. Yaxley-Lennon is an odious thug who plays the game for his own enrichment. Nothing more, nothing less. But of course the racists love him and believe everything that comes out of his lying mouth.

Yet Yaxley-Lennon is pretty? Hypocrisy at it's best. Only YL can use that kind of language or tone. The right are such snowflakes, ironically, as that is what they constantly spout about the left.

Wow, that's quite a smash. Why didn't it burst in to flames? Isn't that's what's supposed to happen?

No, it was definitely a Seal U. Red plates. Maybe it's an advance model for dealers, not sure, but definitely was a Seal U. I was going to take a photo but we were driving in opposite directions and by the time I got my phone he'd already gone past. Ah thank you, this is helpful. Looks like it's not released so it must be either an advance for the dealers or perhaps a grey import? It was on Thonglor so I'm going for hi-so Thai wanting one first so importing it through the grey market. But just a guess.

Back to EVs in Thailand, I just saw my first BYD Seal U on the road. Looked pretty nice, it was all black and very shiny. Does anyone know the spec or how much they cost? BYD's Thai website is pretty poor, it only has the Atto 3 on there. https://www.byd.com/en-th