josephbloggs

Jesus, calm down. I need qualifications to have a personal opinion? I have two eyes. Those two eyes see a man in a golf buggy drift to his right without looking. My eyes also see a motorbike that was travelling way too fast. Put the two together and you have an accident. What my eyes see goes in to my brain which then makes a decision. On the journey from my eyes to my brain the information does not pass through an anti Thai filter that makes people say the foreign man has no fault whatsoever. Sorry but he does. If the bike had just rammed in to him and he hadn't moved in to its path then that would be correct. He turned in to it as it was alongside him. In summary, the farang should have looked or signalled before moving. The Thai guy should not have been going nearly as fast as that. Both share the blame, therefore no further action required. Thank you.

And moving lanes and turning in to someone without looking is fine, obviously.

And you know he signalled? Where did you see this?

So if you are on a single lane road in a moo ban and turn in front of someone that is ok because you are not changing lanes? Please explain.

The most sensible comment in this entire thread.

Because people on this forum immediately and automatically side with a foreigner for almost everything, I have even seen them do it for murder ("two sides to every story", "she must have done something to provoke him", "she was probably cheating on him or stealing" etc)

Yes, as long as your symptoms are mild.

Oh wow, yeah, they forced Japan to sign a rail contract didn't they. What a ridiculous comment. Their very early high speed trains were built under technology transfer contracts with foreign companies. These are common throughout the world across many industries. It means they paid for the technology, they did not steal it nor did they force anyone to hand over their technology. Since then (2007?) they have refined, improved and developed their own technology to the point that they are now a world leader. Seriously, for ridiculous anti Chinese nonsense you have taken things to a new level.

No it doesn't. This is a TVF perpetuated myth. Long ago, yes, now, no.

So €17-18 billion to electrify the country, even though no country has ever done that and a majority of lines are seldom used. You are beginning to sound quite ridiculous now. They are replacing ancient 5-year old polluting locomotives with brand new low emission units. A lot has changed in 50 years. This is a massive step in the right direction and should be applauded. You are basically saying Thailand shouldn't be able to promote EVs unless it has electrified it's whole rail network first? Again you are beginning to sound quite ridiculous.

It's pretty easy, mostly your head is on your head. When they get to the ear bit they remove your mask straps. Have you not had a haircut in the last year?

Nice deflection. Sorry, it is actually happening after decades of little to no investment. Sir, I think this topic is about the delivery of Chinese diesel locs to Thailand and not about the offer of two second hand submarines nor about an aircraft carrier that was purchased 27 years ago (incredibly relevant to this story!), and to be honest I really don't care about how and on what the military spend their budget.

The UK hasn't electrified 60% of its network because it is uneconomical and the traffic doesn't justify it, yet it spends £40+ billion on defence. So they should shift that defence spending to railways and spend billions on electrifying networks for the sake of it, right? Anyway Thailand IS spending billions of dollars on modernising it's rail network, building 1000's of kms of dual track, replacing 48 ancient diesel locomotives with brand new ones, adding 100's of kms of electrified commuter rail in Bangkok, and building new high speed electric lines. Not enough for you? They should be electrifying the whole country overnight instead even though no other advanced country has ever done the same (although China probably comes closest)?

You ever thought that perhaps they want to use that plane in a passenger configuration shortly afterwards? If they are purely shifting cargo back and forth on a route they can use a cargo plane. If you want to remove the seats to carry cargo you need to have the plane reassessed, inspected and re-certified for the purpose by the national aviation authority of the country of origin. Carrying cargo in the passenger cabin in this way means the plane does not need to undergo recertification, they can generate extra revenue on otherwise empty flights, and the plane can immediately be reused for carrying passengers as it does not need to undergo testing and recertification. So no, TG is not being the maverick, they are complying with international aviation guidelines and being smart about it. Of course all the TVF experts who should be running TG know better (except they clearly don't). If you wish to read the IATA guidelines on this: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/094560b4bd9844fda520e9058a0fbe2e/guidance-safe-transportation-cargo-passenger-cabin.pdf

To think these people look down on Thais - there is a 30 page IATA guideline document on carrying cargo in passenger compartments. Yet the anti Thai bias in some posters is so strong they would willingly ignore the picture and willingly believe TG is allowed to fly internationally without following IATA guidelines. Like they just plonk boxes and seats and that is it. Moronic.

These are nothing to do with BRI. These are 50 new diesel units that the SRT ordered to replace 48 existing ones that were built around 1963 and are well overdue retirement. They put it out to tender and CRRT won. They are not gifted by China, there is no loan from China, they are paid for and then Thailand uses them. There is nothing for the Chinese to come and claim.

Yes, of course it does.

Yes indeed, and actually closer to 40,000kms now. An interesting read: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-rail-cmd/index.html

That is true. Here are the actual units, taken from the first handover ceremony:

Agree with you, but just to point out that these 50 locomotives are brand new, not second hand. And replacing units that were built in the mid 60's is definitely a good thing. But so many posters here only ever have negative things to say.

Well done, you found a picture of a bridge collapse from ten years ago. That one was caused by the bridge operator allowing severely overloaded trucks to use it (way over design capacity). How many US bridge collapses in the last ten years? Many. I remember one in Florida three years ago which killed several people. And there was one in California a couple of years ago which collapsed due to an overloaded truck. Not sure what your point is really.

Nope. QA/QC on low priced cr*p is poor, but that is why it is low priced cr*p. Their QA/QC on highly engineered high priced items is good. How many times has your iphone fallen apart? How often do Burberry or Prada bags fall to pieces? I drive a Volvo that was made in China and it hasn't fallen to pieces once in the three years I've had it! Their Maglev has been running for over 20 years and hasn't fallen apart - I've been on it many times and travelling at 430km/h is pretty amazing. The rest of their rail infrastructure is incredible too and doesn't fall to pieces. My issue is that so many on this forum equate everything that China builds which the 100 baht cheap cr*p you can buy on Lazada - there is a distinction. China currently leads the world on railways, like it or not. The "if it's Chinese it will fall apart" comments are vaguely racist, boring, predictable, and not true. Let's not forget bigots used to say the same about Japanese products, then Korean, now Chinese.

Yes, certainly. But it has nothing to do with trains.

Absolutely hilarious - must have taken you ages to come up with that one!! Yep, will fall apart in six months, just like your iphone, macbook, hp computer, prada bag, nike shoes, volvo car, or indeed any of their trains. China has world class engineering and manufacturing - especially when it comes to trains - whether your racist preconceptions like it or not.

Yawn. CRRC is the world's largest train manufacturer. They hardly make things out of scrap metal. Take your anti Chinese racism elsewhere, it crops up in every thread of this kind and is extremely boring.