nobodysfriend Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 8 hours ago, webfact said: It appears that those on the local road have to give way to those exiting the main road. Signs will be erected making it all clear. Signs are not enough . This road looks like it was designed to reduce the population , not the accidents . Need to put traffic lights , at least ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Saucage Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) I strongly disagree with all other posts here, so far. This new design definitely will make it much safer to leave the main road (red arrows), as it slows down to opposite traffic (yellow arrows). And additonally, in the first step, the red car has to watch ONLY the yellow car, and only after passing this point, it will have to watch ONLY the other red cars at the outer lane to join this lane. Without the new design, the driver has to watch the traffic from BOTH the opposite and the own direction, both approaching possibly at high speed. THIS "conventional Thai design" is a recipe for a disaster, rather than the new design. The new design is a huge improvement. Solutions with flyovers or tunnels might be better, though, but also way more expensive. Edited November 20, 2020 by Flying Saucage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 This is what happens when you give 1st grade kids a chance to design a road..... We all know roundabouts don't work here....give way signs don't work here.....this unbelievable piece of "architecture" will never work. But, it's world first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said: Outrageously dangerous.... One of the biggest accident hotspots in Thailand is U-Turns. How can officials not have learned that any junction which requires one party to give way to another is a recipe for death. This road design creates the perfect storm for head-on and T-Bone collisions. The design itself is highly idiotic in any country, to expect such a junction to be safe in Thailand is idiocy at its height. What U-turn? There's no U-turns in the plan mentioned and that's what's MISSING here. Here's where the U-turn should be (yellow circle) and if they do that, it will be perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Flying Saucage said: And additonally, in the first step, the red car has to watch ONLY the yellow car, and only after passing this point, it will have to watch ONLY the other red cars at the outer lane to join this lane. Arai-wah? Who will need to watch what now? This is Thailand. They watch their smartphones. Edited November 20, 2020 by NanLaew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 36 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said: Signs are not enough . This road looks like it was designed to reduce the population , not the accidents . Need to put traffic lights , at least ... And pedestrian crossings! Don't forget at least four zebra crossings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salerno Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 12 minutes ago, NanLaew said: Don't forget at least four zebra crossings. Actually that could work, 4 zebra's tethered to a post you could unhook and use as cover to get to the other side. Might give them reason to stop; the damage to their car/bike hitting a zebra compared to a human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 2 hours ago, klauskunkel said: Not confusing at all. If you have a red car you follow the red arrow, yellow cars follow the yellow arrows. If your car is slightly green with a red license plate, guess what the slightly green arrows with red lettering are for you. If your car has a different color, then you can't use this road! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, webfact said: Confused by the "chicanery"? Amazing Thailand - reminded me of the famous (or should I say infamous) Plough Roundabout (also known as the "Magic Roundabout") in Hemel Hempstead (UK) where I used to live in 1973 (photo). There was a similar one in Swindon (UK). Edited November 20, 2020 by Burma Bill additional information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 The Thai elites have create a new method to cull the herd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpy Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Give way to the Right....... what's the problem ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Thailand has their U-Turns Of Death to cull the herds. It seems that there needs to be a U-Turn every kilometre and a half on every Thai highway. Lord Buddha only knows how many people are killed each year in those human threshers where trucks especially will pull out right in front of oncoming highway traffic. Now something new. Five lanes with a criss-cross chicane. It looks like my electric model car raceway I had as a kid. You'd never had to wait long for a real doozie of a crack-up at the intersections of my model racetrack. Now Thailand makes one for real. Five lanes of criss-cross chicane - let's call this set-up "Slaughter-House Five" No doubt the humor at these intersections will be as dark as a good Kurt Vonnegut novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoon Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 11 hours ago, johng said: The more I look at the photo above the crazier it appears...just totally and utterly no,no,no and no !!!! as they can't do roundabouts then a tunnel or fly over is the only sane option. Only "Thai" solutions are permitted. Yours sound like horrible, foreign, at worst "farang" (and well proven) solutions. They would be a national humiliation. The killing will carry on as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regyai Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Thread shouldn't go without a nod to this old Bangkokonian brainwave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 I'm sure it will catch on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almer Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 19 hours ago, transam said: Where I live there is one roundabout, I will give you one guess at what happens there..... My guess, people go round it but the wrong way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Warrior Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 sure will baffle thai drivers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, Almer said: My guess, people go round it but the wrong way Yep, in the end, even though the road was marked, posts were put in the road, so they could only go round the left side...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almer Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 5 minutes ago, transam said: Yep, in the end, even though the road was marked, posts were put in the road, so they could only go round the left side...???? How long did the posts last? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Almer said: How long did the posts last? I fink they are rubber.......???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarteso Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Please, a Pic of the Designer and his jobs... Brilliant mind ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dwyer Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, Almer said: My guess, people go round it but the wrong way Have a traffic light controlled roundabout in downtown Ayutthaya, it has a “ straight on “ arrow and a “ right turn “ arrow. Have seen a couple of cars trying to turn right before the roundabout . As it is light controlled there is no oncoming traffic and they usually make it round the wrong way to turn right !! Why not have just have traffic lights I hear you ask ?? Well there’s a big Chedi on it . Usually see a few puzzled faces when they get a green turn right arrow “ hmmm , can I really turn right here ?? “ All good fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgMech Cowboy Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 May as well just station the insurance adjusters in a small building, like the traffic cops use, on each side of the highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 They need to install more traffic lights. That'll fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 This is what happens when a transportation engineer wakes up from a 3 day drunken bender, drops some speed, and heads to the office. Just another idea that seems bad at first but upon further reflection seems monumentally stupid. This is guaranteed to be a death trap. It will decrease traffic on that highway though. I would avoid it if I lived in that area. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said: they usually make it round the wrong way to turn right !! They should paint large direction arrows on the road to remind the roundabout newbies how things are supposed to work. Also the roundabout sign and instruction in Thai saying that vehicles on the roundabout go first or "give way to the right" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 hours ago, RocketDog said: It will decrease traffic on that highway though. I would avoid it if I lived in that area. Bit hard to do as it's the main north-south highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailandbeachisland Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 what's wrong here ? just standard for Thailand ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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