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Slogan For Bangkok Ballot: Understand The Present, Brace For The Future

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Slogan for Bangkok ballot

Somroutai Sapsomboon

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party is appealing to Bangkok voters with its "Understand the present, brace for the future" slogan in the run-up to the governor's election early next year.

"Bangkok has been developed without planning for more than 10 years, so it's a disorganised place with a lot of problems. We must understand the problems of the city and envision its future,'' Phumtham Wechayachai, a party director, said yesterday.

The ruling party is adopting the same strategy for the capital that helped it win the national election time after time over the past decade.

The party is conducting surveys and research on Bangkok to produce election campaign policies that will convince Bangkok residents to back whomever the party fields as a candidate.

The party is also asking Bangkok residents to offer their opinion of who should be the new Bangkok governor.

Just because Bangkok has voted Democratic for the past several polls would not put Pheu Thai at a disadvantage, as Bangkok people have not been happy with the Democrat governors' performances, he added.

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-- The Nation 2012-10-01

Undoing the mess that is bangkok is impossible.

Too little thought, too much money and corruption. The future of bangkok is underwater sitting in submersible cars in traffic jams.

Might as well start planning to relocate most of it.

Governance of Bangkok surely needs a hand, but not when the Govt continually suppresses some essentially good moves. And a lot of the problems come down to Police to enforce Bangkok's laws. People who encroach on building standards and town planning should be made to tear down the building but as the payoffs continue, there is no quick fix. Start by allowing pedestrian traffic to use the footpaths, rather than illegal vendors who also stifle legitimate businesses by blocking access. It seems to all come back to the corrupt police and their controlling the city, compounding the problem. If these small things can't be 'policed' then the rest is a waste of time. And if the number of highrise complexes now being built in and around the CBD is any indication, the already congested roads will not be able to handle any more cars. Bangkok streets in the next few years are going to become hour long car parks. This needs fixing now.

Governance of Bangkok surely needs a hand, but not when the Govt continually suppresses some essentially good moves. And a lot of the problems come down to Police to enforce Bangkok's laws. People who encroach on building standards and town planning should be made to tear down the building but as the payoffs continue, there is no quick fix. Start by allowing pedestrian traffic to use the footpaths, rather than illegal vendors who also stifle legitimate businesses by blocking access. It seems to all come back to the corrupt police and their controlling the city, compounding the problem. If these small things can't be 'policed' then the rest is a waste of time. And if the number of highrise complexes now being built in and around the CBD is any indication, the already congested roads will not be able to handle any more cars. Bangkok streets in the next few years are going to become hour long car parks. This needs fixing now.

When you have funded a life style on the back odd owning a patch of land on Sukhumvit, not very nice for the law to stop you building on it to pay the bank.

Downtown is an absolute mess, the car figures per km must be some of the highest in the world. They may as well pedestrianize from the bottom of silom up to asoke and make it deliveries and residential car owners only. Every rai gets a condo containing 100 cars with road widths the same as a country lane.

Insane planning, but hey. Tit

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party is appealing to Bangkok voters with its "Understand the present, brace for the future" slogan...

Nice slogan...don't mean a durn thing but it sounds nice and will look good on election banners and badges.

I know for me, there are a lot of things I don't understand about Bangkok governance...but I'm definitely (hopefully) braced for future suprises which will come as sure as the sun rises and sets.

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party is appealing to Bangkok voters with its "Understand the present, brace for the future" slogan



Citizens of Bangkok....

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If this headline was half intelligent it would read "Understand the present and EMBRACE the future". The way it is presently written it is an unveiled threat! Care to explain PTP?

If this headline was half intelligent it would read "Understand the present and EMBRACE the future". The way it is presently written it is an unveiled threat! Care to explain PTP?

They misread the translation on their tablet PC.

BRACE ! BRACE ! BRACE !

Usually that means there's a crash in the not to distant future.

"Understand the present, brace for the future"

I have this feeling that the slogan is losing a lot in the translation!

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party is appealing to Bangkok voters with its "Understand the present, brace for the future" slogan



Citizens of Bangkok....

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And it´s going to be wet.

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