Accident reduction or accident waiting to happen? New road confuses netizens

[nobodysfriend]

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 ...

[Flying Saucage]

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. 

 

[ChrisY1]

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!

[NanLaew]

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.

 

[NanLaew]

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.

[NanLaew]

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.

[Salerno]

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.

[hotchilli]

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!

 

[Burma Bill]

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). 

 

[connda]

The Thai elites have create a new method to cull the herd.

[Humpy]

Give way to the Right....... what's the problem ?

[connda]

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.

[Enoon]

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.

 

 

[Regyai]

Thread shouldn't go without a nod to this old Bangkokonian brainwave:

 

 

 

[brianthainess]

I'm sure it will catch on  

[Almer]

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

[Road Warrior]

sure will baffle thai drivers!!!

[transam]

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...????

[Almer]

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?

[transam]

1 minute ago, Almer said:

How long did the posts last?

I fink they are rubber.......????

[Tarteso]

Please, a Pic of the Designer and his jobs... Brilliant mind ????

[Andrew Dwyer]

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

[AgMech Cowboy]

May as well just station the insurance adjusters in a small building, like the traffic cops use, on each side of the highway.

[Venom]

They need to install more traffic lights. That'll fix it. 

[RocketDog]

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. 

[johng]

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"

 

[Stocky]

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.

[thailandbeachisland]

what's wrong here ? just standard for Thailand ?