What on earth was going on with the gridlock traffic today ? (Wed 14th Feb)

[DonniePeverley]

Bangkok always busy, but usually between 9-2, and 7pm onwards thinks become a little more 'bearable. Not today. It's 9pm and the roads around Silom, Riverside, are just at a gridlock. 

 

Is there some event going on, or has someone new at his job done a poor job at doing a manual takeover of the traffic lights? 

 

We literally didn't move from our condo for nearly 30 mins. A simple normal 10 minute journey took us nearly two hours. All the same small soi's just rammed. 

 

Reading on Twitter many are reporting the same issues. 

 

Wag gwaaan ?!

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Valentine's Day.

 

Everyone taking their tilac out to dinner tonight.

[BangkokHank]

It's the same in my neighborhood on Srinakarin Road. I've never seen the traffic so bad as it was today.

[DonniePeverley]

1 hour ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Valentine's Day.

 

Everyone taking their tilac out to dinner tonight.

 

Valentines day .... really or is that just a theory ?

 

If Valentines Day a major thing here?

[couchpotato]

44 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

Valentines day .... really or is that just a theory ?

 

If Valentines Day a major thing here?

Yes commercialised same as Xmas----

[NanLaew]

Maybe the OP is near the Bang Rak Amphur's office? Valentine's Day marriages are a very, very big thing in Thailand, and not just for the love lorn foreigner and his 'you'll do me' spouse of the week. I recall there's a wiki entry for this amphur holding a record for the amount of V-Day marriages

 

It's infrequently mentioned in tour guides these days, and maybe totally absent in real estate sales pitches.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

7 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

Valentines day .... really or is that just a theory ?

 

If Valentines Day a major thing here?

 

Yes, it's a major thing here.

 

Just try to get a table in a popular restaurant on Valentine's Day evening.

[DonniePeverley]

7 hours ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

 

Yes, it's a major thing here.

 

Just try to get a table in a popular restaurant on Valentine's Day evening.

 

The pollution yesterday was horrific too. Official readings were very unhealthy. So you had a bunch of people on roof top buildings wafting in the pollution. Very romantic. 

[Will B Good]

Police checking all the 'motel' traffic(ing).