Popular Post webfact Posted December 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2021 Picture: Daily News Daily News made much of the start of a crackdown on black smoke belching vehicles in Chiang Mai yesterday. The authorities are determined to stop them contributing to the PM2.5 pollution that regularly sees the northern Thai city named as one of the most polluted in the world in the cool season months. The crackdown is called "Inspect - Stop - Really Fine - Black Smoke emitting Vehicles". All the protocols are in place to make sure that offenders with 50+ or 45+ on the scale get their vehicles off the road for repair and adaption. The first day, however, with five inspectors crowding around one machine in a picture, failed to find any offenders. The plan is a joint effort by police and environmental groups and local authorities. Health insurance plans that meet the long stay visa requirements -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-12-16 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JustAnotherHun Posted December 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2021 Good idea. Soon all the farmers will drive with electric cars to burn their ricefields. 2 1 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 They have all year to try and break bad habits like this,no,it is better to wait for smokey season! Another 2 day crack down,more cracks in Thailand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 40 minutes ago, webfact said: Really Fine They must be getting serious at last, 1000 Thb fines ...???? I was looking up at the hills yesterday ,and they were getting a little bit smoggy already,it could not be mist as it was after noon, I am not expecting things to improve this year , as the powers that be are not going to do anything different ,than in previous years. maybe buy more leaf blowers from China, they need to be proactive and prevent the burning before it starts. regards Worgeordie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 When my car and bike go in for tax , insurance and testing they shove a pipe up my flue to check exhaust emissions , so I would say that vehicles chucking out smoke have not been tested or the owner knows a fail is on the way so drives around without a care in the world. Come on BiB check for smoke then check for all the other stuff. Oh and not just Changers , everywhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Oh dear...another 2 day crackdown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman34014 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 1 minute ago, ChrisY1 said: Oh dear...another 2 day crackdown! As long as that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjakob007 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 4 hours ago, webfact said: crackdown on black smoke belching vehicles in Chiang Mai yesterday low hanging fruits that are lucrative. how about going after the farmers or corporations that burn? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Berkshire Posted December 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2021 4 hours ago, webfact said: The first day, however, with five inspectors crowding around one machine in a picture, failed to find any offenders. Amazing. I can stand and watch traffic on any busy road and find one within 5 minutes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 What a joke - tell those pr1cks to go after those thousands of rice, corn and other agricultural fields being burnt just after harvest. In the 80s there was no such haze which meanwhile starts in December and carries through to the first rains end of April. You cannot fix stupid and the Thais will be paying a very high (health) price for all this damaged done by their fellow country men. I could move away, a privilege hardly available to any of the locals in and around Chiang Mai ......... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Mickmanus Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 5 minutes ago, Sydebolle said: What a joke - tell those pr1cks to go after those thousands of rice, corn and other agricultural fields being burnt just after harvest. In the 80s there was no such haze which meanwhile starts in December and carries through to the first rains end of April. You cannot fix stupid and the Thais will be paying a very high (health) price for all this damaged done by their fellow country men. I could move away, a privilege hardly available to any of the locals in and around Chiang Mai ......... They need to do both . Stop the field burning and also stop the polluting vehicles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwill Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 5 hours ago, webfact said: The first day, however, with five inspectors crowding around one machine in a picture, failed to find any offenders. Probably because everyone slows down for a checkpoint and the vehicles mostly belch black smoke when accelerating. Put on a show to pretend you are doing something while the hills are burning untouched. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarteso Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, webfact said: The crackdown is called "Inspect - Stop - Really Fine - Black Smoke emitting Vehicles". There are a few “vehicles”last week.. Edited December 16, 2021 by Tarteso 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidneyw Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 4 hours ago, toofarnorth said: they shove a pipe up my flue Ouch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rudi49jr Posted December 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2021 Chiang Mai authorities have a long way to go if they’re going to crack down on smoke emitting vehicles, since almost every songthaew that drives in and around the city (many, many thousands of them) produces nothing but enormous clouds of black smoke. And that’s just the songthaews. And that’s been going on for as long as I can remember, and they’re going to crack down now? Why not 20 years ago already? Call me a cynic, but somehow I don’t have a lot of faith in the outcome of this ‘crackdown’. PS: while you’re at it, why not do something about the burning as well? That is by far the biggest cause of the annual winter smog, so it would be good to start there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi49jr Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Berkshire said: Amazing. I can stand and watch traffic on any busy road and find one within 5 minutes. You could blindfold me and have me point in any random direction on a busy intersection and I’d find one within 5 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 8 hours ago, webfact said: The crackdown is called "Inspect - Stop - Really Fine - Black Smoke emitting Vehicles". I makes money for the BIB. Does little other than that. The other BIB (Boys in Bangkok) need to enact legislation that puts some teeth in stopping forest arson and Ag burning (like those folks who are given seed, fertilizer, and everything they need to grow crops in the denuded mountains in CM and MHS - and then at the end of to crop cycle - burn it all down. (Oh WOW. PM2 at 800 ppm!) The folks who contract for those crops don't suffer. Cha-Ching! And instead of fines for vehicles, take them off the street until they are fixed. (Give me 500 THB. All good! Ticket for fine good all day at every other checkpoint. Wave you though!) It never ends. It will never end. Ever. Just hot-air spewed by elite politicos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) "No find black smoke truck!!!" ???? Well, get in your patrol car and drive around. You'll find them. "No have patrol car. "Patrol car" used for BIB puuyai and escort VIP. Mai mee. And there ya have it. Never changes. But the "black smoke vehicles" are a fraction of the Hot Season PM 2.5 in the North. That's all Ag and forest burning. Edited December 16, 2021 by connda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arithai12 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 21 hours ago, webfact said: The first day, however, with five inspectors crowding around one machine in a picture, failed to find any offenders. How about red buses and tuk-tuk? Are they invisible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 And when the farmers start the burning season, where will plod be then, nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunpeer Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 21 hours ago, toofarnorth said: When my car and bike go in for tax , insurance and testing they shove a pipe up my flue to check exhaust emissions , so I would say that vehicles chucking out smoke have not been tested or the owner knows a fail is on the way so drives around without a care in the world. Come on BiB check for smoke then check for all the other stuff. Oh and not just Changers , everywhere. I was thinking the same: how come some cars have smoke? the yearly check should prevent this... so either they don't check properly or they dodge the check completely! yesterday only I saw several cars with way to much smoke! a lot of work to be done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Crackdowns are totally useless for chronic problems. Chronic problems need constant enforcement. Every day the highways are clogged with over loaded, polluting vehicles spew black smoke and that look like they were last cleaning during the Vietnam war. Polluting vehicles need to be impounded and taken off the road until the owner pays for them to be made roadworthy. Hit the owners of these polluting heaps of junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 On 12/17/2021 at 7:59 AM, arithai12 said: How about red buses and tuk-tuk? Are they invisible? Indeed =they can make an app and Im happy to click off some pics of my daily bicycle ride in city of those smoky offenders.....(cough) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi49jr Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 30 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said: Indeed =they can make an app and Im happy to click off some pics of my daily bicycle ride in city of those smoky offenders.....(cough) First time I rode my bicycle up Doi Suthep was around 9.30 in the morning. Didn’t even make it halfway up because of all the songthaews and buses going up the mountain as well, almost all of them belching out so much black smoke, right in my face. So I started doing my rides around 7.30 or 8.00 in the morning, before the songthaews and buses started going up the mountain. That was always a good workout, with the reward of a super fast downhill ride afterward. Really loved doing that, overtaking cars and buses, seeing the look of surprise on the faces of the drivers as they were being passed by someone on a bike. But that was years ago, before Chiang Mai was being almost continuously suffocated by smog for 4-6 months every winter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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