Bangkok to expand ‘Sathorn Model’ for more traffic flexibility

[webfact]

Bangkok to expand ‘Sathorn Model’ for more traffic flexibility

By The Nation

 

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The Transport Ministry wants the successful “Sathorn Model” applied elsewhere in Bangkok to ease traffic congestion, requiring staggered closing times for schools and “reversible lanes” along selected road segments during rush hours.
 

Ministry spokesman Sarawuth Songsiwilai said on Thursday the Sathorn Model had proved effective on Sathorn and Silom roads since its introduction in 2015 with financing from the Toyota Mobility Foundation.

 

It encourages people to use public transport and to leave their cars at Park & Ride locations, usually found at supermarkets, to board buses and the Skytrain. It also involves businesses letting employees end their shifts at different times.

 

Sarawuth said a sub-committee charged with finding immediate solutions to traffic congestion in Bangkok approved the extension of the Sathorn Model on Wednesday.

 

The ministry, Metropolitan Police, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Chulalongkorn University, National Research Council and Toyota Mobility Foundation would soon sign an agreement to that effect, he said.

 

The university would conceive a plan involving innovative technology and the Toyota foundation would fund the implementation, Sarawuth said.

 

Other measures presented at the meeting included the Marine Department improving ferry piers from Rama III Road to Khlong Lat Pho Park so that motorcyclists can cross the Chao Phaya River and avoid cluttering Bhumibol Bridges I and II.

 

The Department of Rural Roads is ensuring motorcyclists of easy access to the piers.

 

The BMA meanwhile has a Bt6-million budget for a feasibility study on constructing underground parking lots in the inner city.

 

It will also liaise next week with the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand about widening the road surface at the Rama IX-Praditmanutham intersection by 200 metres so that funding can be allocated in fiscal 2019.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30354366

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-09-13

[mike324]

Or the government could simply cap how much BTS can charge passengers. The fact that the owners of BTS are in the top 20 richest list says a lot of how much they are profiting on the backs of citizens.

[Jonmarleesco]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

motorcyclists can cross the Chao Phaya River and avoid cluttering Bhumibol Bridges I and II.

Will it improve their road sense? No? Thought not. 

[rkidlad]

3 hours ago, mike324 said:

Or the government could simply cap how much BTS can charge passengers. The fact that the owners of BTS are in the top 20 richest list says a lot of how much they are profiting on the backs of citizens.

but who are the major share holders of the BTS? 

[phkauf]

<deleted> are they talking about?? Sathorn is a parking lot almost every night from 5pm onwards. Same mess in the mornings. The idiots who sleep in the traffic control boxes have no clue how to make traffic flow properly.

[mike324]

20 hours ago, rkidlad said:

but who are the major share holders of the BTS? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS_Group_Holdings

http://www.btsgroup.co.th/en/management-structure/director

 

CEO is Keeree Kanjanapas, the 13th richest man in Thailand, net worth of $1.7 billion.

 

[lamyai3]

On 9/13/2018 at 12:39 PM, webfact said:

Bangkok to expand ‘Sathorn Model’ for more traffic flexibility

That must be the model that involved chopping down all the trees and concreting over the khlong. 

[Cadbury]

On 9/13/2018 at 12:39 PM, webfact said:

"....requiring staggered closing times for schools and “reversible lanes” along selected road segments during rush hours.

It is an absolute certainty that some stupid drivers will find themselves going the wrong way in a "reversible lane". Then the fun will start.

And who will be setting up these "reversible lanes"; the same idiots who sit in the traffic control boxes?

 

On 9/13/2018 at 12:39 PM, webfact said:

The university would conceive a plan involving innovative technology and the Toyota foundation would fund the implementation, Sarawuth said.

So if Toyota was not there to provide the funds to finance the "innovative technology" then presumably nothing would happen. Cheap Charlie Thai government laying it on others to fix their own traffic problems while they waste huge amounts on submarines.

 

On 9/13/2018 at 12:39 PM, webfact said:

improving ferry piers from Rama III Road to Khlong Lat Pho Park so that motorcyclists can cross the Chao Phaya River and avoid cluttering Bhumibol Bridges I and II.

Motorbikes on the ferries? Would that be right? I am not familiar with these ferries.