Chakthip vows to completely rid Bangkok of street racing

By THE NATION

 

 

National Police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda vowed on Thursday to make motorcycle racing “extinct” in Thailand, as he issued several solutions and demanded results within five months. 

 

The police are also implementing several road-safety measures, including painting 3D zebra crossings in high-risk areas as well as on main roads near schools. The first 3D zebra crossing is being painted near the state-owned Bodindecha high-school in Bangkok and will be ready for use by August 6. 

 

As for street racing, the police chief said the entire mechanism will be monitored, starting from shops that sell race-related equipment and provide modification services for motorcycles. He has also threatened to take legal action against administrators of social-media pages that encourage racing or arrange racing events as well as parents or guardians who fail to keep their children in check.

 

The police general also vowed to penalise chiefs of Bangkok police stations who are found to have not heeded his orders. 

 

Local metropolitan police will be encouraged to take pre-emptive action by preventing races from taking place through intelligence and online surveillance, and also seizing motorcycles or vehicles owned by the racers or spectators. 

 

Chakthip warned that these measures will be strictly implemented over the next five months to force racers or organisers of races to stop.

 

Meanwhile, deputy police chief Pol Lt-General Damrongsak Kittipraphas said the 3-D zebra crossings are expected to help reduce accidents and road casualties, and will be painted near all schools in Bangkok.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374077

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-08-02

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Young adults at the age of adrenalin rush just part of growing up,

most I think just looking for an outlet, why do not the police organise a street meet themselves have in place the rules , medical stand by  safety checks and have a couple of police bikes to race, being part of the community in policing in a pro active way would  if done correctly at the right time and with the blessing of locals would remove the illegal hooning,  

 that exists now on the streets, the odd few that would still want to go outside this legal meet, then bring the full weight of the law down on them, community policing has worked else where overseas, sometimes you have to look outside the box.

Sir, Thailand is bigger then only Bangkok..do you know that?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

as he issued several solutions and demanded results within five months. 

All heads of departments and also politicians do this stuff. It doesn't matter what the subject is.

Nobody enforces anything here after the first week of a crackdown, then it fades from view until next year.

 

Keeps me busy I suppose, complaining about it.

Perhaps all these bosses have been put here just to keep me busy on TV, and I've been looking at it wrongly for years now?

Bravo..then come to Pattaya , where I live it is insanity day and night...These children need to understand consequences , REAL CONSEQUENCES...collectively we have tried,it only become confrontational then louder as they went out of their way to annoy us ....Bikes need to be crushes and kids need to go to Jail period....it is out of control this emboldened lawlessness....

More hot air being spouted by a man just craving media attention.

Big Joke was full of nonsense just the same, look what happened to him.

3 hours ago, leeneeds said:

Young adults at the age of adrenalin rush just part of growing up,

most I think just looking for an outlet, why do not the police organise a street meet themselves have in place the rules , medical stand by  safety checks and have a couple of police bikes to race, being part of the community in policing in a pro active way would  if done correctly at the right time and with the blessing of locals would remove the illegal hooning,  

 that exists now on the streets, the odd few that would still want to go outside this legal meet, then bring the full weight of the law down on them, community policing has worked else where overseas, sometimes you have to look outside the box.

Get them to think outside the box or better still throw the box away

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Chakthip vows to completely rid Bangkok of street racing

That'll make the streets of Bangkok completely deserted.

Didnt someone promise to clear BKK of all traffic jams within 6 months sometime ago?

34 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Didnt someone promise to clear BKK of all traffic jams within 6 months sometime ago?

Ha ha, that's a regular lie with a couple of them now.

It must be a trait of being the PM, it goes to their head. They just dream of how powerful they think they are by promising something way beyond their capability.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Chakthip vows to completely rid Bangkok of street racing

 

Right...... And just this morning I saw people riding their motorcycles on the pavement going past a police traffic booth. 

 

 

 

Laws, like vows, mean nothing if you don't actively do anything about them. 

 

 

Difficult to expect thinking outside the box when thinking within it is almost zero ...

Why just Bangkok 

Why not the entire country

Where I live there are A__ Hole street racers every night from 11 pm to 3 am 4 am most nights on our main road

Mostly tech college students too about 15 minutes away. 

Some time ago the cops caught some of them but NOT ALL of them

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Chakthip vows to completely rid Bangkok of street racing

..... Chakthip warned that these measures will be strictly implemented over the next five months to force racers or organisers of races to stop.

Again Thank you for the warning, chief 

It's about the vowing only, what's in the vow is not important.

 

Along bangna trad road in Bangkok you can call the police about an ongoing race right now, youngsters driving up and down the highway, even against the right direction, but not a single police man will ever show up. They do not care...

Good luck Mr. Chakthip

Ha, ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, 

The only thing he has left do do now, ot not <deleted> this up, is to remember to do the follow-up on the vow. That when all vows turns into Oops. Like in Oops, I forgot!

Boys will be boys. 

A troll post containing a trolling representation of a former politician's name has been removed. 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The first 3D zebra crossing is being painted near the state-owned Bodindecha high-school in Bangkok and will be ready for use by August 6. 

Unless the paint is a foot thick don't expect drivers to pay any attention to them.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Unless the paint is a foot thick don't expect drivers to pay any attention to them.

But that is exactly it. The 3rd dimension is vertical so traffic will be forced to give way or slam into a 'painted' vertical barrier which, presumably, will erect as soon as a pedestrian steps onto the crossing. Of course, there will be a lot of noise and airbag deployment at first but give it time and motorists will understand.

5 hours ago, RotMahKid said:

Sir, Thailand is bigger then only Bangkok..do you know that?

Really? 

 

I've heard rumors about that...can it be true?

 

Rooster (on behalf of the Bangkok Tourist Board)

4 hours ago, zappalot said:

Along bangna trad road in Bangkok you can call the police about an ongoing race right now, youngsters driving up and down the highway, even against the right direction, but not a single police man will ever show up. They do not care...

Good luck Mr. Chakthip

Will just end up a 24 hour crackdown like motorbikes riding on the sidewalk. 

12 hours ago, mok199 said:

Bravo..then come to Pattaya , where I live it is insanity day and night...These children need to understand consequences , REAL CONSEQUENCES...collectively we have tried,it only become confrontational then louder as they went out of their way to annoy us ....Bikes need to be crushes and kids need to go to Jail period....it is out of control this emboldened lawlessness....

Maybe this would deter them as they do in China!