Do you agree with proposals for a 120 kmph speed limit?

[webfact]

Do you agree with proposals for a 120 kmph speed limit? 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai media has posed a question following the new transport minister's proposal to raise the speed limit on four lane roads from 90 milometers an hour to a blanket 120 kmph limit. 

 

In a banner headline Daily News asked the people if they agreed with the scheme.

 

And they also asked if they agreed with banning trucks from the metropolitan area for all times except midnight to 4 am. 

 

Saysayam Chidchob wants to improve traffic flow with the new measures. 

 

Critics have said that increasing speed will increase accidents. Others have said that it makes no difference - Thais drive at whatever speed they want anyway. 

 

Yesterday a top traffic policeman responded cautiously to the proposals, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Pol Col Ekkarat Limsangkat has often been in the news over the last year as he has headed an RTP committee looking into changes in the law on Thailand's roads. 

 

He said that the police will be looking into the minister's proposals but reminded the public that it would only apply to four lane roads like expressways and the Chonburi motorway. 

 

He acknowledged that some stretches of such roads already have 120 kmph limits. 

 

He said that work needed to be done to look at the kinds of road, environmental conditions, road widths and exits and entrances. 

 

Only then could a recommendation be sent back to the Transport Ministry. 

 

The truck proposals would see large vehicles banned from the capital's streets to a greater degree than at present. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[Mango Bob]

They do 120 now.  They don't care about the law.  They will kill you if they have to just to get past you.  raise it to 120 they will be doing 140.  What is next?

[Assurancetourix]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

And they also asked if they agreed with banning trucks from the metropolitan area for all times except midnight to 4 am. 

When they discover empty shelves and they start to starve but especially thirsty they will notice, especially in a country like Thailand where the train is almost nonexistent, that if they live it is thanks to the road transport of goods and perishable goods.
That they do not imagine for one second that the traders will spend the night to receive goods and also the day to sell them ...

[Topdoc]

No, do not agree. Keep it at 90 or absolute max 100. There are too many old cars on the roads and remember all the 'brake failures' we keep hearing about

[Assurancetourix]

7 minutes ago, Mango Bob said:

They do 120 now.  They don't care about the law.  They will kill you if they have to just to get past you.  raise it to 120 they will be doing 140.  What is next?

If they want, they can remove speed limits on all roads in Thailand; I have nothing to do ..

and also remove road signs and paint to draw lines on the road, nobody respects anything in this country.

[darksidedog]

Even if all of the locals could drive properly, which is most unlikely to ever happen, a blanket 120 isn't wise. There will always be areas prone to traffic buildups, such as long hills where the trucks are crawling, where slower speeds are necessary. A more sensible approach would be to study the roads and deem appropriate limits, taking the stretches previous accident history into account. Variable limits work well to reduce speeds when the surveillance system can see heavy traffic ahead. All of this assumes of course, that the motorist is paying any attention to any road signs whatsoever, or showing them any respect.

[StayinThailand2much]

For the sake of getting rid of some racing motorbike idiots, I would suggest 200 kmph. Someone will later just have to scrape off the 'rest' of these idiots off the road...

Edited August 1, 2019 by StayinThailand2much

[geoffbezoz]

13 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

If they want, they can remove speed limits on all roads in Thailand; I have nothing to do ..

and also remove road signs and paint to draw lines on the road, nobody respects anything in this country.

They only respect money

[NCC1701A]

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

Do you agree with proposals for a 120 kmph speed limit? 

yes! "I live! I die! I live again!" 

 

[RotMahKid]

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

the speed limit on four lane roads from 90 milometers an hour to a blanket 120 kmph limit. 

Why should I react to somebody who this, serious?

[Mavideol]

Not agree......they barely can control their vehicles driving around 70-80 Km/H how do we expect them to be able to control them at such high speeds, in general Asians (based on MY own experience) are bad drivers regardless of the speed

[canuckamuck]

As far as I am concerned they do something about the slow drivers. Nearly every crash up here is due to someone overtaking unsafely. Why are they overtaking unsafely? Because people here don't let people overtake, even if they are 40km under the limit. 

[cerox]

I cannot see any difference in a 90 or 120 speed limit. Because the laws do not need to be obeyed.

[Isaanbiker]

 

      No. 

    

 

   

[Psimbo]

39 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Even if all of the locals could drive properly, which is most unlikely to ever happen, a blanket 120 isn't wise. There will always be areas prone to traffic buildups, such as long hills where the trucks are crawling, where slower speeds are necessary. A more sensible approach would be to study the roads and deem appropriate limits, taking the stretches previous accident history into account. Variable limits work well to reduce speeds when the surveillance system can see heavy traffic ahead. All of this assumes of course, that the motorist is paying any attention to any road signs whatsoever, or showing them any respect.

It's not a 'blanket' raise of the limit- its 4 lane roads as clearly stated in the article. The title of this thread is very disingenuous. There is a difference between a motorway and a rural road, as you pointed out.

 

I have just driven virtually the length of the country cruising at 100 (yes I was very naughty) and on the main highways I would have been comfortable at 120- more than that in a pickup and it gets a bit fuel thirsty. To be honest most people DID seem to be cruising at around 120, with the occasional loon blasting past at higher speeds. The problem I find on the highway compared to motorways is that no matter what your speed your head has to be on a swivel the whole time, with ghost riders, u-turns people cutting across etc.  

 

No matter what the speed limit is set at there is a limit to how fast people can go. It's not about numbers its about education and ability.

Edited August 1, 2019 by Psimbo

[jackdd]

Does it matter if the official limit is 120 or 90 if they hardly ever enforce it?

Want to reduce traffic jams? Give people motivation to use motorbikes instead of cars.

[PatOngo]

If that's what they want, what the hell, it's their country and their body count!

[SpaceKadet]

It doesn't matter what speed limits there are, unless they are enforced. And this will never happen.

[mike787]

1 hour ago, Mango Bob said:

They do 120 now.  They don't care about the law.  They will kill you if they have to just to get past you.  raise it to 120 they will be doing 140.  What is next?

Mango Bob is dam right...they drive faster than that.  You can wish/ask/pray for whatever you like, you WILL NOT get it EVER!  Not here.  

[PingRoundTheWorld]

Agree for sure. Also make it a crime to drive less than the speed limit on the two right lanes. Slow drivers cause far more accidents than fast drivers, especially idiot slow drivers blocking the right lanes.

[canopy]

I like the 120 idea. I find it a comfortable speed in my pickup. Like a lot of others on the road, it's what I drive already anyway regardless of what is posted. Conditions permitting of course as I always drive safe and well within my limits. There will always be slow pokes and bad drivers no matter what the speed limit is. 120 would be a good step.

 

[joloit]

No matter what speed limit the government will impose..... nobody cares. Sad, but true!!

[moe666]

Yes raise to 120 on all 4 lane roads no probalem. I have rode my motorbike and driven a car over many of the roads of Thailand in eight years of travel I have only saw 5 or 6 accidents. This included riding to pattaya from pattaya to and thru Bangkok and on up to Chiang Mai. I have driven my car chiang Mai to Bangkok back to CM at least 20 times and as I said only saw 5 or 6 wrecks. I am not discounting the fact that there are wrecks on the roads of Thailand but from my own experience driving here isn't as dangerous as posters on TV love to make it. At 90k a hour that is a long day to BKK

[Deli]

Make it 220 km/h and all is good. Happy days !

[WeekendRaider]

you can't drive faster than about 20 kph anyways, where I live.  and as I don't see the point in living anywhere else than in a very rural village, to stay in Thailand at all then what some truckers and tourist vans do on some highway somewhere is no concern at all.  

on the few occasions we ever need to go to the "weeaung" of Chiangmai I take my 4x4, keep the whole trip to a minimum.

I am very much more concerned that we will never take the first baby step on.... aviation.... as for road travel it has many solutions to all of it's problems.  but aviation has none.  zero.  zippo.  no speed limits.... or carbon emission limits.  except for those crazy fake CORSIA offsets in 2027.  

Edited August 1, 2019 by WeekendRaider

[jvs]

51 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Agree for sure. Also make it a crime to drive less than the speed limit on the two right lanes. Slow drivers cause far more accidents than fast drivers, especially idiot slow drivers blocking the right lanes.

How would you make that work?

[apophyss]

EVERY weeks Thailand make some news looks like a first april,
but it's no a joke !

 

When they will understand they looks so stupid to all the world ?

 

[rtco]

Amazing Thailand ... one minute they are advocating an increase in the speed limit and the next there is more of this ... 

How about tackling the current problem instead of creating further ones or is this because you want to maintain your position as the No 1 in road deaths? 

 

[Cadbury]

This is a beat up. Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob is a new minister on the block. He needs a "look at me" announcement to get some media attention.

[Emdog]

Not really a 'limit but rather more of a 'suggestion'

See it as way to free up some hospital beds. More likely to get killed, game over, if going 120 rather than 90