Any Expats Cross The CM Provincial Border This Weekend

[connda]

Has any foreign expats had the need to cross the Chiang Mai provincial border since the road blocks went up on the highways.  If so, what was your experience.  I live in Lamphun but my bank, dentist, doctor, etc are in Chiang Mai province.  Anyone have any problems getting through?  

[elektrified]

I have the same question but the other way around. I need to get to Lamphun to attend to some business. Will I face the possibility of quarantine on the way back? Does anyone know?

[MrBrad]

You could probably do it on a bicycle taking back roads. They can't have police posted at every possible point of crossing between provinces.  Where there's a will, there's a way.

[jonwilly]

Beware of Cameras for speeding Lampang to CM I got caught about 3 weeks back Photo fine through post B500.

 

john

[Dante99]

1 hour ago, MrBrad said:

You could probably do it on a bicycle taking back roads. They can't have police posted at every possible point of crossing between provinces.  Where there's a will, there's a way.

You want to play that game with the fine at 100,000 baht?  The guy who drops the dime on you will get a big payoff.

[connda]

So, nobody know?  Nobody has crossed the provincial border?  Interesting. 

Once this nonsense lifts it's time to shut my Chiang Mai bank accounts and move them to Lamphun as well as finding other doctors, dentists, pharmacies and businesses.  Yes, there is a better selection in Chiang Mai but it doesn't do much good when Thai government entities embraces racist policies directly targeting all foreigners simply for being non-Thai.
I have no doubt that the government will regularly roll out lock-downs from this point forward.  They tasted this new-found power, and no doubt it tastes very, very sweet. 

Edited April 13, 2020 by connda

[orang37]

4 hours ago, connda said:

So, nobody know?  Nobody has crossed the provincial border?  Interesting. 

Once this nonsense lifts it's time to shut my Chiang Mai bank accounts and move them to Lamphun as well as finding other doctors, dentists, pharmacies and businesses.  Yes, there is a better selection in Chiang Mai but it doesn't do much good when Thai government entities embraces racist policies directly targeting all foreigners simply for being non-Thai.
I have no doubt that the government will regularly roll out lock-downs from this point forward.  They tasted this new-found power, and no doubt it tastes very, very sweet. 

 

Do you think you might be imagining the worst possible case a little prematurely ?  I know I do: I find covering mirrors helps.

 

cheers, ~o:37;

[BritManToo]

18 minutes ago, orang37 said:

I find covering mirrors helps.

Did you forget to hide all the forks?

(Not even Google remembers that)

Edited April 13, 2020 by BritManToo

[connda]

28 minutes ago, orang37 said:

 

Do you think you might be imagining the worst possible case a little prematurely ?  I know I do: I find covering mirrors helps.

 

cheers, ~o:37;

I prefer my reality like my Scotch Whisky: straight up and unadulterated.
Unlike some.  "Coronavirus - Boo!"

[NotEinstein]

Our farm is across the border, but accessed via farm roads (concrete/tarmac all the way). Didn't even think about it being an issue when we went to dump the garden waste the other day.....

[jackdd]

Upon entry to Chiang Mai you have to go into 14 days quarantine.

No idea if or how this is enforced, but considering the high fines, i wouldn't want to play this game ????

[CharlieH]

The supposed routine, is that you have to have good reason to travel, will be checked with thermometer, if ok allowed to pass, on return to your province, same again and you are supposed to report to the moo baan, and self quarantine for 14 days.

 

That's the "requirement" 

[Throatwobbler]

8 hours ago, connda said:

So, nobody know?  Nobody has crossed the provincial border?  Interesting. 

Once this nonsense lifts it's time to shut my Chiang Mai bank accounts and move them to Lamphun as well as finding other doctors, dentists, pharmacies and businesses.  Yes, there is a better selection in Chiang Mai but it doesn't do much good when Thai government entities embraces racist policies directly targeting all foreigners simply for being non-Thai.
I have no doubt that the government will regularly roll out lock-downs from this point forward.  They tasted this new-found power, and no doubt it tastes very, very sweet. 

My Thai neighbors have had to self quarantine after coming back from Lampang province. These rules are not just for foreigners.

[orang37]

It would be valuable to know if any CM expat travelling to Lamphun (yes,  it is a Province) and back via the old CM~Lamphun road recently has had any experience with being, stopped, checked, etc.

 

thanks, ~o:37;

[LomSak27]

17 hours ago, Throatwobbler said:

My Thai neighbors have had to self quarantine after coming back from Lampang province. These rules are not just for foreigners.

 

Thai Family members, are in Chiang Rai. They have business with the land office, which will be open after the holidays. However they have no idea when they will return to CM. They will wait a couple days, If they hear nothing, about when it would be open, they will just come back next Monday & "quarantine" 

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by LomSak27

[dingdongrb]

I have traveled numerous times between CM & Lamphun (Lamphun Big C & Makro shopping). On hwy 11 they used to have a checkpoint (northbound only) at the PTT station but this week it has been moved to the Outer Ring road area.

 

If you have a license plate showing CM then they just wave you through. I heard (from a Thai friend who lives in CM but his license plate shows BKK as he recently moved back home to CM) that if you have a license plate showing something different they merely take your temp.... (but that was told to me a few weeks back when this border crackdown started, they might have changed this).

 

HINT: If you are worried try traveling near lunch time as I've noticed a few times at the lunch hour (11:30 - 12:30) the checkpoint was unmanned.....go figure ????

[connda]

22 hours ago, Throatwobbler said:

My Thai neighbors have had to self quarantine after coming back from Lampang province. These rules are not just for foreigners.

If that's the case then all inter-provincial travel would be at a stand-still. And it's not.  We have people in my village travelling back and forth daily from Lamphun province.  Inter-provincial trucking is still happening.  The border is open to Thais with no requirement to quarantine other then the stated restriction from the governors office which was all foreigners must quarantine and any Thai travelling domestically from Bangkok and the lower four provinces in the South.  So your neighbours aren't quarantining because their travel originated from Lampang.  There's has to be a different reason they are in quarantine. 
 

[connda]

Interesting.  I've got a CM license plate.

[Throatwobbler]

3 hours ago, connda said:

If that's the case then all inter-provincial travel would be at a stand-still. And it's not.  We have people in my village travelling back and forth daily from Lamphun province.  Inter-provincial trucking is still happening.  The border is open to Thais with no requirement to quarantine other then the stated restriction from the governors office which was all foreigners must quarantine and any Thai travelling domestically from Bangkok and the lower four provinces in the South.  So your neighbours aren't quarantining because their travel originated from Lampang.  There's has to be a different reason they are in quarantine. 
 

Just commenting on what is happening in the area where I live. For the last month anybody who has come back from Bangkok has had to self quarantine. Could be different village from village.