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 ?!

Valentine's Day.

 

Everyone taking their tilac out to dinner tonight.

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

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?

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----

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.

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.

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. 

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