Cyclists get free train rides saturday for 'car free day'

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Cyclists participating in 2013 Bangkok's 'Car Free Day' event.

 

BANGKOK — The capital’s two major commuter rail systems will embrace City Hall’s annual Car Free day Saturday, but only for cyclists.

 

The operators of the BTS and MRT lines said all services would be free tomorrow for those with bicycles, while some roads will be briefly closed for a cycling event celebrating the day.

 

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So will I get free travel if I turn up in lycra shorts and a daft helmet, or must I take my bike onto the train?

 

Which begs me to ask the question, why are cycle helmets streamlined/ And motor bike ones not?

Edited September 21, 20187 yr by wgdanson

Sorry just read the full story, and mine isn't foldable, and I don't get up til 9.30............damn, fooled again.

good luck with that.

Have problems getting on myself sometimes.......with a bicycle as well?!!!

13 hours ago, wgdanson said:

So will I get free travel if I turn up in lycra shorts and a daft helmet, or must I take my bike onto the train?

 

Which begs me to ask the question, why are cycle helmets streamlined/ And motor bike ones not?

Strangely enough they are.

37 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Strangely enough they are.

But not like push bike helmets.

 

24 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

But not like push bike helmets.

 

??

Make these compulsory for Hell's Grandads

Don't miss a real time update texted and send via phone, from our reporter at the scene in his car while stuck in traffic jam, caused by hundreds of cyclists.

Edited September 22, 20187 yr by Lupatria

Hate to be Captain Obvious here, but all those bikes in the limited confines of a relatively narrow BTS/MRT car with limited egress?  What could possibly go wrong especially given the Thai propensity of having to be "Me First" through the doors and a Jai Yen attitude that disappears and turns ugly with the first unintentional bump?  If there was an accident, I sure would not want to be on that train.

Edited September 22, 20187 yr by connda

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

car free day

Sounds like a car free 90 minutes, back to normal now.

Edited September 22, 20187 yr by MJKT2014

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

annual Car Free day Saturday

And on the other 51 Saturdays in the year, traffic will flow ás normal'.

44 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

'And on the other 51 Saturdays in the year, traffic will flow ás normal'.

You missed the 'not' before 'flow'

???