BMA on the PM 2.5case: Crackdowns on smoke belching vehicles at construction sites

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

INN reported that the Bangkok authorities - and the new mayor in particular - are focusing their attentions on particulate matter in the air.

 

The so called PM2.5 has been a perennial problem in the Thai capital with residents masked up to prevent lung problems well before the pandemic ever hit.

 

At the latest crisis meeting Chadchart Sittipunt stressed the need to focus attention on pollution caused by factories and construction sites.

 

Orders will be issued from October to stop black smoke belching trucks from carrying earth and sand and causing particulate pollution. 

 

A committee has been formed to sort this out. 

 

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[khunjeff]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Orders will be issued from October to stop black smoke belching trucks from carrying earth and sand and causing particulate pollution. 

Sure, might as well wait until October. They've been promising a crackdown on smoke-belching vehicles regularly for almost 30 years now, so a few more months shouldn't matter ????

[Phuket Pete]

I get this feeling of Deja Vu !  

[ikke1959]

again..... and again.... and still a lot black smokers driving around... How is sthat possible with all the times crackdowns?? Crackdown for 3 days again?? 

[Aussieroaming]

Let's divert the public's attention to construction pollution so that we can conveniently look the other way in regards to the thousands of belching BMTA buses that blight the Bangkok air 24/7.

 

Do it right Chatchart, clean up the BMA's own pollution mess and therefore lead by example and not by exception.

 

 

[spidermike007]

And on the highways? The black belchers there don't count? Is it too much work? 

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

A committee has been formed to sort this out. 

Jeezus H Christ another committee....

[Lucky Bones]

15 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

again..... and again.... and still a lot black smokers driving around... How is sthat possible with all the times crackdowns?? Crackdown for 3 days again?? 

Somebody accidently looked at last years calendar and formed the committee to issue the press release.

[Liverpool Lou]

18 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

Let's divert the public's attention to construction pollution so that we can conveniently look the other way in regards to the thousands of belching BMTA buses that blight the Bangkok air 24/7.

Another lame attempt to apportion blame in the wrong place as the vast majority of Bangkok's buses have been fueled with NGV for years, not diesel which is responsible for black smoke!

Edited July 27, 2022 by Liverpool Lou