New Campaign to Reduce Traffic Congestion during Songkran

[webfact]

 

Paphamon Arayasukawat

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Transport Ministry has launched the "Near to Home and Far from Home" campaign to reduce traffic congestion during this year’s Songkran Festival, targeting people living within 300 kilometres from Bangkok

 

Minister Saksayam Chidchob said the idea is to have motorists manage their travelling days, instead of all travelling on the same day, which leads to heavy traffic congestion.

 

The campaign asks for the cooperation of outbound travellers, who will travel within 300 kilometres from Bangkok, to start outbound travelling on April 11-12 and travelling back on April 15-16.

 

Mr Saksayam said the measure aims to mitigate the capital’s traffic volume during peak periods by hoping to reduce outbound travellers by 75,800 cars each day and inbound travellers by 48,300 cars each day.

 

 

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[Thaiwrath]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The campaign asks for the cooperation

Another brain fart idea !

Does he not realise that drivers here will travel when they want, and when it suits them.  

[colinneil]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Minister Saksayam Chidchob said the idea is to have motorists manage their travelling days

What a bloody crazy/ ridiculous comment, he wants motorists to manage their travelling days.????????????????????

Another silly plonker living in la la land.

[Crossy]

The good minister can rest assured that I will be doing my bit to minimise traffic congestion by staying at home all week.

 

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The campaign asks for the cooperation of outbound travellers,

if it is voluntary and it is thailand then it will not work

[SmartyMarty]

yet another muppet totally unsuited to their job.

[herfiehandbag]

The whole point of going to the expense of obtaining your own vehicle is that you can travel where and when you want, at your own convenience. Not when public transport or government diktat tells you. That is so in every country ( bar one or two which do not allow their citizens to own their own vehicles)!

 

The Thais will ignore it, as would anyone else.

[thailand49]

I give them a A plus for coming up with the title if they stay up all night or does it come from sitting in their office doing nothing all day but dreaming up all this stuff.

 

The problem is if you want to manage the traffic have the police stop blocking roads off and stretching the traffic down to one area whenever it gets heavy.  The also shorten the traffic lights!  ????

[herfiehandbag]

11 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

The problem is if you want to manage the traffic have the police stop blocking roads off and stretching the traffic down to one area whenever it gets heavy.  The also shorten the traffic lights!  ????

Shortening the traffic lights will cause many problems for tall people!????

[thailand49]

10 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Shortening the traffic lights will cause many problems for tall people!????

No based on the country being closed th????e numbers don't bare it!  You have a higher chance of being hung by a cable line?

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Minister Saksayam Chidchob said the idea is to have motorists manage their travelling days, instead of all travelling on the same day, which leads to heavy traffic congestion

Yeah okay, like asking nicely is going to work.

[mikebell]

People travel when their company allows it.  Ordering lots of companies to stagger their closing days might work.

[DLock]

Just make odd-ending plates can travel on odd-days, and even-ending plates on even days, and enforce with decent fines.

 

Halve the problem.

 

...or do as you are doing here....do nothing.

[internationalism]

naming those 4 days would only cause traffic on those days.

So logical solution would be travel on any other day, starting from thursday 8.04 and coming back tuesday 20.4.

travellers have already long ago arranged their work free days, booked cars, hotels etc.

Travel at night should be proposed.

 

the best solution, would be not encouraging people to travel inter-provincially during those holidays, postpone family visits for a long 1-5.05 weekend 

 

Edited April 5, 2021 by internationalism

[Yorkshire Tea]

Switch the traffic lights off, within 300km of Bangkok, & let all those travellers spend Songkran sat in their cars in the ensuing gridlock ????

[Nanaplaza666]

I know a good way to reduce traffic , arrest everyone that's driving (car or motorbike) that hasn't got a license and impound their car or bike .