40km-long traffic jam on Mittraphap Road

By The Nation

 

 

Travellers heading down Mittraphap Road towards Nakhon Ratchasima province for the New Year have been bogged down by heavy traffic, with the queue of vehicles stretching for almost 40 kilometres on Saturday (December 28).

 

The traffic situation on this vital road for travellers from Bangkok to the Northeast has been aggravated by motorway construction.

 

Vehicles are moving at a snail’s pace on the crowded four-lane road, periodically disrupted by Nakhon Ratchasima Highway 2 staff and highway police officers who have opened a special inbound traffic lane to Bangkok, from Nong Sarai subdistrict in Pak Chong district to Lat Buakhao subdistrict in Sikhio district, a total distance of 24 kilometres, to accelerate the flow of vehicles.

 

Traffic on Mittraphap Road is very high along the route from Saraburi to Nakhon Ratchasima, and the situation is expected to continue throughout the day. The long traffic jams are expected until Sunday morning. However, the traffic is light on the 304 route in the Pak Thong Chai-Kabin Buri section.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379967

 

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Good Lord!

 

I certainly hope everyone is wearing their seatbelts...

53 minutes ago, JimmyTheMook said:

Good Lord!

 

I certainly hope everyone is wearing their seatbelts...

always  good  to "live  in hope"  no  hope and  Bob  hope ,take  your  pick

1 hour ago, JimmyTheMook said:

Good Lord!

 

I certainly hope everyone is wearing their seatbelts...

and brought a urine bottle.

yeah, I've often thought, what would it be like if you desperately wanted to do #2 while immobile for hours in a traffic jam.....

Having a quiet pee should not be too difficult, but the other?????

 

Anyone had experience they could share with us?

 

Well, ok, maybe not....

 

 

6 minutes ago, blazes said:

yeah, I've often thought, what would it be like if you desperately wanted to do #2 while immobile for hours in a traffic jam.....

Having a quiet pee should not be too difficult, but the other?????

 

Anyone had experience they could share with us?

 

Well, ok, maybe not....

 

 

No problem, just drop your trousers and say it's OK I am Chinaman on tour.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Vehicles are moving at a snail’s pace on the crowded four-lane road

Seems a good plan to me

It is a good job there is the concrete barrier dividing the road, or else who knows how many would pull onto the opposite carriageway and drive the wrong way to beat the queue....

4 hours ago, Chazar said:

always  good  to "live  in hope"  no  hope and  Bob  hope ,take  your  pick

Bob hopes left town.. there's your answer !

1 hour ago, blazes said:

yeah, I've often thought, what would it be like if you desperately wanted to do #2 while immobile for hours in a traffic jam.....

Having a quiet pee should not be too difficult, but the other?????

 

Anyone had experience they could share with us?

 

Well, ok, maybe not....

 

 

You want photos or just a narrative?

2 hours ago, blazes said:

yeah, I've often thought, what would it be like if you desperately wanted to do #2 while immobile for hours in a traffic jam.....

Having a quiet pee should not be too difficult, but the other?????

 

Anyone had experience they could share with us?

 

Well, ok, maybe not....

 

 

Chinese  have the answer..................????

16 minutes ago, hobobo said:

You want photos or just a narrative?

Vinyl seats  work  best......so  Im told

Lately, when going in and out of Bangkok, I have been doing it either late at night, after 10pm, or early in the morning, around 5am. During the day it can be utter madness, especially on Highway 9 or 1. Bangkok toward Saraburi. Wow. Public transport desperately needs to be improved, as there are more cars, and more trucks every year. Also, they need to figure out a more efficient way to move freight, as a large portion of this problem is due to slow moving trucks clogging the highways. Maybe carpool lanes? Or more freight trains. That would be some progress!

be quicker to walk than drive  that way

It;s hard to see what is particularly news-worthy in this, it happens at least twice every year (New Year and Sonkran).

 

It's Thailand for gawd's sake, what did you expect - sensible?

Damn it we’re going to be driving right through there tomorrow morning. 

So traffic is light on route 304 I’ll consider that tomorrow morning but it won’t take people long to figure that out it’ll probably be just as busy by tomorrow. 

Need a ban on privately owned automobiles, SUVs, and pickup trucks.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Lately, when going in and out of Bangkok, I have been doing it either late at night, after 10pm, or early in the morning, around 5am. During the day it can be utter madness, especially on Highway 9 or 1. Bangkok toward Saraburi. Wow. Public transport desperately needs to be improved, as there are more cars, and more trucks every year. Also, they need to figure out a more efficient way to move freight, as a large portion of this problem is due to slow moving trucks clogging the highways. Maybe carpool lanes? Or more freight trains. That would be some progress!

 

You touch on the real problem - a lack of means of getting from A to B except by road. Very limited = massive traffic on the roads. On the positive side, with cars going so slowly there are likely to be less serious accidents than if the cars were speeding along at 120+.

We left Don Mueng 0915 to Saraburi, then Korat. Highway 2 0verpass in Saraburi at 1145 (100 km approx.), then Korat 1700 (255 km total approx.) Johnny Walker bottle at 1701. Normal traffic is 3.00 - 3.30 hrs. 

 

As usual my wife was right - "I told you five times we should not do this - why you never listen to me!"

Can you imagine what the traffic would be like if everyone went home on the Klongs (river) like 100+ years ago when Bangkok didn't have many roads? ????

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Bob hopes left town.. there's your answer !

Yep , no Hope no Jobs and no Cash . Good job we still have Kevin Bacon eh .

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Traffic on Mittraphap Road is very high along the route from Saraburi to Nakhon Ratchasima, and the situation is expected to continue throughout the day. The long traffic jams are expected until Sunday morning.

And this is being posted as breaking news on Monday?  Or is that news source using US time?

1 hour ago, Sailor42 said:

We left Don Mueng 0915 to Saraburi, then Korat. Highway 2 0verpass in Saraburi at 1145 (100 km approx.), then Korat 1700 (255 km total approx.) Johnny Walker bottle at 1701. Normal traffic is 3.00 - 3.30 hrs. 

 

As usual my wife was right - "I told you five times we should not do this - why you never listen to me!"

My heart goes out to you. That is miserable. Peak hours are the worst. Something is going to give. This can't go on. 

The new safety program:  'Nobody moves, Nobody gets hurt'

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Lately, when going in and out of Bangkok, I have been doing it either late at night, after 10pm, or early in the morning, around 5am. During the day it can be utter madness, especially on Highway 9 or 1. Bangkok toward Saraburi. Wow. Public transport desperately needs to be improved, as there are more cars, and more trucks every year. Also, they need to figure out a more efficient way to move freight, as a large portion of this problem is due to slow moving trucks clogging the highways. Maybe carpool lanes? Or more freight trains. That would be some progress!

I drive from Khon Kaen to Bangkok often and 95% of the time I leave at 8pm or later.  Daytime driving is ridiculous...the heavy trucks in the day or night are the most dangerous, plus they are the ones that cause all the traffic as they cannot get up even the smallest hill without slowing to a crawl and they always cover all the lanes....Solution...the elevated highway is nearly complete....supposedly, heavy trucks are not allowed on the elevated highway so hopefully when it opens in 2021 the drive will be much better.  I will pay the Toll no matter what it costs just to get away from the heavy trucks.

6 hours ago, Gudge said:

No problem, just drop your trousers and say it's OK I am Chinaman on tour.

 

Better to say, 'it's OK, I'm from California'.

Welldone BIB, closing an outbound lane for an extra inbound. 555

Got that the wrong way round but OK only until 2nd January, then you will have it right

11 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

and brought a urine bottle.

We took a bottle along for the 8 year old nephew thankfully. A six hour trip to Buriram turned into an 11 hour trip. 

Mrs is off in a bit, I refused to go, nothing worse than sitting in a traffic jam on that road, done it too many times and it's as boring as hell when you get to where you are going