Chadchart Vows Traffic Solutions for Bangkok

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Chadchart Sittipunt, the governor of Bangkok, has pledged to find effective solutions to Bangkok’s traffic congestion within a year.

 

During a meeting with the Traffic Police Division (TPD), Chadchart stated that he intends to implement an intelligent traffic management system and establish a joint working group to investigate the feasibility of implementing it by next summer. Members of the working group will come from the TPD, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), and the Ministry of Transport.

 

According to the Bangkok governor, the joint working group will also include personnel from the Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA), the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, the Expressway Authority of Thailand, and 30 other organizations in the capital city.

 

Chadchart said a number of officials will be assigned positions at the center to coordinate aid during emergency situations and natural disasters in BMA-managed districts.

 

The former transport minister noted that one of the primary factors impeding the improvement of Bangkok’s traffic management is the fact that traffic flow at major intersections is still manually controlled by traffic officers who are unaware of the current traffic conditions in neighboring areas. Executives from the BMA and TPD will now meet once a month to discuss plans and evaluate their efforts to improve Bangkok’s traffic.

 

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[Excel]

Try the Greek trick. Vehicles with odd numbered plates can only travel into BKK on odd dates and those with even numbered plates can on on even dates. ????

[CLW]

Fully automated traffic control system would be a start.

Just as in other countries... You know

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Chadchart Sittipunt, the governor of Bangkok, has pledged to find effective solutions to Bangkok’s traffic congestion within a year.

A fully integrated mass transit system of trains buses and min-vans is the only way to get cars off the road.

Get people from home to work/school and home again efficiently and cost effectively they would leave the car at home.

Edited June 10, 2022 by hotchilli

[khunjeff]

49 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

A fully integrated mass transit system of trains buses and min-vans is the only way to get cars off the road.

Or we could try a system of half-broken claptrap vehicles driven by lunatics on routes that make no sense and don't connect with anything else. Oh, and add in a seemingly random, uncoordinated fare structure. Wait, you mean they already tried that?? 

[PETERTHEEATER]

52 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

A fully integrated mass transit system of trains buses and min-vans is the only way to get cars off the road.

Get people from home to work/school and home again efficiently and cost effectively they would leave the car at home.

Only if the trains, buses and minivans have Mercedes Benz badges.........????

[roquefort]

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Chadchart stated that he intends to implement an intelligent traffic management system

Wouldn't that require intelligent road users??

[carlyai]

I love it. The Japanese investigation, The British investigation, hot air ballons planning solution. It's all good fun. ????