Sure Miss the Chiang Mai Public Buses….

[seedy]

They have been talking about this since I arrived here.

Put it on the same list as talking about ...

Burning crop residue and forest ground cover - black smoke belching vehicles - road safety - new airport

[hml367]

16 minutes ago, seedy said:

They have been talking about this since I arrived here.

Put it on the same list as talking about ...

Burning crop residue and forest ground cover - black smoke belching vehicles - road safety - new airport

Exactly !

[hml367]

"......... The first Chiang Mai Transport Master Plan was created in 1994. It was among the earlier transport master plans for regional cities in Thailand. .......  "

 

In Section 4.3 of http://app.eng.ubu.ac.th/~app/resproject/upload/p1/WCTRS2016_0281_paper.pdf

 

Seedy is correct about there being many "planned" projects for Chiang Mai.

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[Sparkles]

On 12/26/2021 at 11:12 AM, EricTh said:

This statement is grossly incorrect.

 

There was some official news articles several years ago about the train system and protests but I can't find it now. I read Thailand news almost everyday for the past x years.

 

Just because one 'government official' told you that doesn't mean anything. Most government officials don't know anything aside from their job duties. I have different government officials telling me contradicting 'facts' all the time.

 

The only story that is true come from the top government official and not any ordinary govt official.

Well if you believe in "official" new stories that's a laugh. I could list a dozen  of them, that never saw the light of day over the last 2 decades. Protests had nothing to do with it. There were far bigger public protests in CM about the buildings, for the judiciary, on Doi Suthep, what did that achieve ? nothing .

 

My contact in local Gov, still a neighbour, now retired, has never once been wrong about all the floated speculation in the 17 years we have been in CM, you are speaking to the wrong ones.

 

I remember well arriving to work in Bangkok 20 years ago and Thaksin was live, in a television address, telling the population that he would solve Bangkok's traffic gridlock in 6 months. Was he, as PM, not a top official ? 

 

When the bulk of population live in Moobans, way out of the city, a BTS system was never going to be built, financial suicide as city bus systems have proven. Our Mooban has 800+ homes, multiple that by that by say 3 people per home that's 2,400 indiviuals not anywhere near public transport the reason cars and motor bikes are the main form of transport and will remain that way. There are 100's of similar Moobans

 

The Songteaw mafia may well be "noisy" but don't elevate them to city decision makers, simply not true.

Electric people movers are hopefully the future.