Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bt9.6m bicycle lane ends up as roadside parking space

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bt9.6m bicycle lane ends up as roadside parking space

By The Nation

 

 

A Bt9.6-million, 2.9-kilometre-long bicycle lane along the beach in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Mueang district has ended up as parking space for vehicles, with police saying nothing can be done about it.
 

Following complaints from local residents that they could not ride in the bike lane, Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan police station chief Pol Colonel Chayinthorn Sukhonthorn on Tuesday said no action could be taken against motorists who parked in the lane.

 

He explained that the provincial public works and town planning office had built the bike lane without cooperating with the local administration to issue any law or regulation for its usage, so police could not act against motorists that parked there.

 

The lane was allocated for cyclists from the beach road in front of Wing 5 Air Command to the Bang Nang Rom Bridge.

 

Chayinthorn said he would hold a meeting with other government agencies concerned to discuss what should be done about the bike lane.

 

Sutthiporn Thiangtham, mayor of Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan municipality, said the municipality had not taken over the bike lane from the public works office even though the construction work had been completed six months ago.

 

Parts of the lane’s surface have also been damaged by vehicles, the mayor added.

 

Aran Chanton, acting chief of the Prachuap Khiri Khan Public Works and Town and Planning Office, said the bike-lane project could not yet be handed over to the local administration because the office was currently in the process of defending the project with the Office of the Auditor-General.

 

Aran said the agency had questioned the project’s worthiness after it turned out that it had not been used by cyclists but was mostly being used as parking space by motorists.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30357519

 

 

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[TConthePC]

Expect the vendors to move in there with their wares too soon.

[mercman24]

typical answer*nothing can be done about it* how about putting up a NO PARKING sign idiot, then clampimg them

[anterian]

 it had not been used by cyclists but was mostly being used as parking space by motorists..... read --  it could not be used by cyclists as it was being used as parking space by motorists.
Surely though a few cyclists with hammers could solve this problem. 

[upu2]

Put metal posts on both side of the lane with spacing enough for a bike

[samsensam]

 absolutely the same thing happened in my area of bangkok around 5 years ago, there is a cycle lane but there is absolutely no chance of a cyclist being able to use it due to parked cars. it's a joke. to be honest without a shift in road users behaviour bangkok is not a safe or sensible place to promote cycling, it is simply too dangerous.

[Justgrazing]

43 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

 

A Bt9.6-million, 2.9-kilometre-long bicycle lane along the beach in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Mueang district has ended up as parking space for vehicles, with police saying nothing can be done about it.

 

Of course something can he done .. They just need the right enforcer's .. 

[Darcula]

Uncle Somchai's factory probably made a killing on blue paint and those bicycle lane signposts. And that's the important thing.

[kotsak]

 

(That's a tit bird)

[Katia]

I love how they're like "the project isn't worthy because cyclists don't use it.  The fact that they don't because they can't because cars are parked there is irrelevant."

[OZJAY]

Are thai’s dropped on their head at birth? The things I read on here on daily basis are unreal. Can’t use the other bike lane in Hau Hin either, due to motor bikes & sidecars zooming up and down all day every day. What’s wrong with these clowns!! 

[Cadbury]

3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bt9.6m bicycle lane ends up as roadside parking space

The incompetent administrative processes in Thailand will ensure it remains a third world country. Nepotism and cronyism will guarantee that. The fact they haven't got a clue what their doing doesn't help.

[seahorse]

9.6m baht. What a waste of money. 

How much do they waste on painting the white stripes on pedestrian crossings? 

[quandow]

4 hours ago, OZJAY said:

Are thai’s dropped on their head at birth? The things I read on here on daily basis are unreal. Can’t use the other bike lane in Hau Hin either, due to motor bikes & sidecars zooming up and down all day every day. What’s wrong with these clowns!! 

HAHAHAHA!!!!  You appear to be a new member, and yes we all wonder the same thing. I got fed up with all the insanity a few years back, moved to Mexico, then moved right back. The insanity is its charm compared to other places.

[DuiDui48]

11 hours ago, OZJAY said:

Are thai’s dropped on their head at birth? The things I read on here on daily basis are unreal. Can’t use the other bike lane in Hau Hin either, due to motor bikes & sidecars zooming up and down all day every day. What’s wrong with these clowns!! 

Same shit in Udon-Thani.10 million bath spent..for vendors and carparking mostly...sad when no planing and thinking ahead is used.

[Dukeleto]

Unfortunately a bicycle lane in Thailand is a concept at least 5 or more decades ahead of its time. Any attempt in Thailand to widen a road only succeeds in creating a parking lane. I made this same comment a decade ago and the same is still true today. Even if you have a double lane with two way traffic with no parking spaces on either side it automatically becomes a one way by default!

 

The real culprits...traffic law enforcement of which there is none.

[Rawairat]

So you take part of the road beside a footpath where cars park, paint it and put up bike lane signs. Now cars are parking there, I can’t believe that!!!!!!

[Chassa]

Never see bicycles on them bike lanes, never see any people on the overhead road crossings! Waste of money. Most Thais are lazy - remember that!

[thailand49]

12 hours ago, OZJAY said:

Are thai’s dropped on their head at birth? The things I read on here on daily basis are unreal. Can’t use the other bike lane in Hau Hin either, due to motor bikes & sidecars zooming up and down all day every day. What’s wrong with these clowns!! 

Education!  plain and simple no critical thinking just memorization then you add that with the corruption the left-hand doesn't know what the right is doing or just can't do anything about it which is what the excuse being used again this time around.

[GAZZPA]

I am quite surprised it's not being blamed on pesky foreigners parking in the cycle lane. 

 

Typical worthless police saying nothing can be done. It's simple to fIx this, enforce the law, surely somewhere is the law in Thailand it says no parking in cycle lanes OR cars not to use cycle lanes?

 

Put up a clamping sign and fee for removal, easy.

[malt25]

15 hours ago, upu2 said:

Put metal posts on both side of the lane with spacing enough for a bike

How dare you bring logic into this.

[Briggsy]

12 hours ago, OZJAY said:

Are thai’s dropped on their head at birth? The things I read on here on daily basis are unreal. Can’t use the other bike lane in Hau Hin either, due to motor bikes & sidecars zooming up and down all day every day. What’s wrong with these clowns!! 

They prefer not to obey rules which inconvenience them in any way. You will find this underlying trait explains a great deal of Thai behaviour. Rule-following Germans they are not.

[a977]

Maybe if they towed away the vehicles and made the owners pay for the towing, storage and a fine before the vehicle is released this would maybe, and I use the word maybe loosely, this would maybe go someway to solving the problem so would getting rid of the vehicles on the other side of road 

[kamahele]

So there is no law in Thailand concerning not blocking bike paths? I would assume the fact that it is a bike path and not part of the street would be enough....

[KCPhuket]

BS! Nothing WILL be done about it.

 

No CONSEQUENCES in LOS (unless you really have to pee)

 

Why they remain behind in SE Asia...bitch about this if you want...the facts are obvious.

[CanterbrigianBangkoker]

One word -

 

BOLLARDS!

 

 

เสา

[blazes]

Never mind, blocking the cycle lane has probably saved a few dozen lives so far.

 

Ooops, sorry, I didn't see you there, falang! 

[shaurene]

It is so unbelievable really, why so many departments are involved. It should just be the council or the roads authorities. The government money that is so wasted. Employ monkies expect monkey business.

[cardinalblue]

You should have gave Mexico a chance and then lead the caravan to the border!

[BEngBKK]

To solve problems like this you treat the Thai population with some serious gene-therapy.... Or wait for the education level  to get higher in 20 - 40 years

I would bet my money on gene-therapy ????

But if Thailand where an developed country like the west, could you afford to live here ?