Prawit orders review of speeds on intercity and rural roads

By Jitraporn Senwong 
The Nation

 

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DEPUTY PRIME Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan has instructed police and related agencies to review and set appropriate speed limits for various vehicle types on intercity motorways and rural roads in order to boost road safety and reduce accidents.

 

Prawit, who is in charge of police affairs, ordered a study and review of vehicle speed limits to bring them in line with changes in vehicles and road conditions, but to continue prioritising overall road safety.

 

He also told the Royal Thai Police to coordinate with Interior and Transport ministries to review and update ministerial regulations issued under the Land Transport Act BE 2522 (1979) and the Highway Act BE 2535 (1992), Ministry of Defence Spokesman, Lt-General Kongcheep Tantrawanich, said on Wednesday.

 

Prawit told the bodies to consider using CCTV and electronic traffic sign technologies to help control vehicle speeds. The technology could allow for permitting changes in speed limits at different times of the day and under various traffic conditions in order to reduce crashes, facilitate people’s travel and promote the transparency of traffic police. 

 

According to the third, sixth and 10th ministerial regulations issued as per the two acts, the legal speeds are as follows.

 

In Bangkok, Pattaya and municipal areas, the speed limit for cars and motorcycles is up to 80km/h and the speed for trucks weighing over 1,200kg (including vehicle weight and loaded cargo) and passenger transport vehicles is up to 60km/h, while the limit for trailer and towing trucks, tricycle and pick-up trucks weighing over 1,200kg is up to 45km/h.

 

On intercity motorways and ring roads, cars may be driven at up to 120km/h, while trucks weighing under 1,200kg and passenger transport vehicles can go up to 100km/h, and large trucks and car-towing trucks can go up to 80km/h while other vehicles can go up to 120km/h.

 

On rural roads, cars and motorcycles can go up to 90km/h, car-towing trucks and tricycles can go up to 60km/h while trucks weighing over 1,200kg and passenger transport vehicles can go up to 80km/h.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30365734

 

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So ole Fatty needs his name in the news.

Come up with whatever speed limits you want, who here ever takes notice?

It is enforcement that is needed, and that will never happen because plod would have to get off their fat a++es and do something.

Its actually a good initiative  set maximum speeds limits  indicate these limits on each roads then fine all those ignoring those limits and do something useful with the proceedings.

Reducing speed will reducing accidents..u just install speeding cameras very simple to enforce.

Edited March 13, 20197 yr by Destiny1990

I am rather taken by the idea of "transparent policemen"!

 

Now by my reading tricycles (I presume by that they mean TukTuks - you couldn't pedal a samlor fast enough) can do 120kph on ring roads - that would be jolly exciting!

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

and set appropriate speed limits

I suggest this one...

 

3 minutes ago, missoura said:

I suggest this one...

 

That dog is speeding.

Same old story. Make new laws that sound like they fix the problem, when the real problem is enforcing the laws that exist.

1 hour ago, JAG said:

I am rather taken by the idea of "transparent policemen"!

Now by my reading tricycles (I presume by that they mean TukTuks - you couldn't pedal a samlor fast enough) can do 120kph on ring roads - that would be jolly exciting!

I think we'll all see through those straight away.

Even if they made the speed limit 10km/h the populace would find a way to kill each other in vehicles due to inattention.

Zero enforcement, zero effect, people in ivory towers puff their feathers. Nothing to see here, move along, at any speed you can muster from your clapped out pickups.

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

That dog is speeding.

Luckily it doesn't weigh over 12 tons, no worries.

unless there is pain in the pocket of people (enforced fines)  behavior will not change..

2 hours ago, webfact said:

DEPUTY PRIME Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan has instructed police and related agencies to review and set appropriate speed limits for various vehicle types on intercity motorways and rural roads in order to boost road safety and reduce accidents.

More waffle from the portly porky pie seller .. 

There are speed limits??

Well then how am I supposed to get to and stop at the trafic light before eberyone else?

 

As if this will make the slightest difference, empty talk as usual. In my area they don't drive that fast on the highways, they wait until they get onto the minor B roads and drive like the clowns they are, & off course noise is very important to them - they have to make as much noise as possible! another law the Police refuse to enforce!

General Dunning-Kruger award says something to appear like he's doing something.

Dear Prawit,

As per your instructions, I have now stood at the side of the road for almost an hour,less coffee break,somtam break, mia noi break,during that time I saw many vehicles pass at various speeds, some in excess of the speed limit, some under the speed limit.

I have now completed my review of the speed limits on road in Thailand(ps I had to guess the hour as I did not have a watch,do you have a spare one I could borrow?)

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Prawit told the bodies to consider using CCTV and electronic traffic sign technologies to help control vehicle speeds.

So he told the bodies to consider using tools that they already <deleted> use. It just shows how retarded this wart is: he takes salaries for all his posititions, but doesn't have a clue about anything. 

5 hours ago, seahorse said:

Same old story. Make new laws that sound like they fix the problem, when the real problem is enforcing the laws that exist.

talk is cheap and here it is greatly discounted...

it's called.... E N F O R C E M E N T

Why is there no press conference about this? Prawit ordered someone to do something after all!

Channel 7 News: This is extraordinary, General, you swinging into action like this...

Prawit: Just doing my job. I'm working very hard doing my job. This job I'm doing is a hard job.

Channel 5: What other actions can we expect from you after this?

Prawit: Mai rooo. I'm working hard on this one now!

Channel 12345: General, what is your qualification that enables you to understand traffic problems and recommend appropriate solutions?

Prawit: Uhn, ...ehm, what was the middle part, again?

13 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Luckily it doesn't weigh over 12 tons, no worries.

Possible Paw failure .

15 hours ago, missoura said:

I suggest this one...

 

Maximum weight 12 ton

Having a watch with an alarm on it is very useful to wake you to say something helpful or not in this case????

16 hours ago, colinneil said:

So ole Fatty needs his name in the news.

Come up with whatever speed limits you want, who here ever takes notice?

It is enforcement that is needed, and that will never happen because plod would have to get off their fat a++es and do something.

Spot on

I suppose coming up with a REAL driving test would be just too much effort, this guy has always been the real big joke.

16 hours ago, colinneil said:

So ole Fatty needs his name in the news.

Come up with whatever speed limits you want, who here ever takes notice?

It is enforcement that is needed, and that will never happen because plod would have to get off their fat a++es and do something.

The means to enforce and catch traffic violators and speeders is absent, as is this man's awareness of what goes on around him. Pathetic.

17 hours ago, webfact said:

but to continue prioritising overall road safety.

... say what?

"...continue prioritising overall road safety."

Luckily I wasn't taking a sip when I read this. Nothing quite matches "doing another study" when you want to seem like you are doing something when in actuality you are doing nothing. 

Right up there with "thoughts and prayers"

18 hours ago, webfact said:

In Bangkok, Pattaya and municipal areas, the speed limit for cars and motorcycles is up to 80km/h

Sukhumvit in Pattaya is flooded with red-light runners doing well over 100kph.  These lights are just outside deserted police stations; deserted because the cops are further up the road harassing/milking foreigners.