Transport chief details measures taken to tackle Bangkok’s air pollution

By THE NATION

 

Saksayam Chidchob

 

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Tuesday (October 1) that his ministry has been escalating measures to tackle the air pollution problem in Greater Bangkok since last week.

 

“I have ordered agencies under Transport Ministry to combat the dust pollution on three aspects: traffic, construction and public transport,” he said. “On the traffic front, the Department of Land Transport will beef up efforts to conduct emission checks on private and public vehicles. Vehicles that fail emission tests will be suspended from using public roads until the issue is fixed.”

 

On the construction front, the minister said he is coordinating with the departments of highways and rural roads to have road contractors tamp down dust by spraying water on the ground.

“Lastly, the Transport Ministry will promote the use of public transport to cut down on the number of private cars on roads, such as reducing fares during rush hour and improving the quality of service,” he said.

 

The minister added that these are only short-term measures, saying, “for long-term effects, we are considering increasing taxes for high-emission vehicles and reducing tax and registration fees for environmentally friendly options, such as electric vehicles”.

 

Meanwhile, a source from the Department of Land Transport said the department is conducting random emission tests on trucks and public buses using main roads in Greater Bangkok on at least 16 days per month. If the dust situation worsens, the department may consider enforcing a new regulation, that would allow trailer trucks to use public roads only between 12pm and 4am.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30376949

 

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Waste of time douche bag. Stop misleading the public and tell them to stop burning fields, forests, charcoal burning and manufacture, rubbish burning, Cut back on the diesel cars.. These are the main causes. 

Stop saying dust people!! Its missleading! Rain settles dust but tiny particles that are basically weightless are airborne and are not affected by rain, spraying water or preying! 

The wind can blow it all away somewhere else though so i suggest to use that hot air coming from your mouth to start blowing it away or better still suck it all in!!

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Transport chief details measures taken to tackle Bangkok’s air pollution

Very important, you will never make it, the executive is not willing to follow you!
More important, however, is death on the roads, there are too many!

14 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Waste of time douche bag.

I believe in my 30 years here this is the first time a "Transport minister" has ever made a statement, I did wonder for a while if they had one! This would be the same minister responsible for the mayhem on the roads that has never been addressed, the same Minister that banned two decker buses, that allows transport companies with their pollution belching overweight unroadworthy pieces of <deleted> free reign on the roads 

See above!

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Tuesday (October 1) that his ministry has been escalating measures to tackle the air pollution problem in Greater Bangkok since last week

 

He had his photo bomb moment,..... next please

SMOG; one of those sights best viewed from afar. 

There are outside, foreign entities that have addressed and dealt with these challenges in multi-million population cities. Unfortunately, there seems to be no political or public support to reach out to those with such proven expertise in reducing this long ignored situation.

The next step will be to ban smoking in public to reduce the pollution ? ????