Free Traffic Smart-Phone App For Bangkok Motorists

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Free traffic smart-phone app for Bangkok motorists
Patinya Iamtarn,
Tanatpong Kongsai
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- Motorists worried about being caught in traffic now that schools have reopened can download the BMA Live Traffic app to check on routes and realtime traffic conditions in the capital.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is offering the application for both Apple and Android devices for free. Routes and traffic conditions can also be checked on http://traffic.longdo.com and http://www.trafficpolice.go.th/report.php.

Most schools start the new semester this week and up to 20 per cent of them opened yesterday.

Deputy Metropolitan Police Commander MajGeneral Worasak Nopsittiporn convened a meeting of relevant officials yesterday to discuss how best to handle traffic congestion at the start of the new semester.

Bangkok residents often complain about traffic jams caused by parents dropping their children off at school.

Bad traffic has been predicted on 34 roads and 52 intersections in Bangkok this semester.

Meanwhile, the BMA is handing out 120,000 crash helmets to students in a bid to boost safety. Some 115,752 helmets have been earmarked for kindergarteners and primary students, plus 4,698 for secondary pupils.

"We have already given helmets to students via schools in Nong Chok and Lat Krabang districts. For schools in the 48 other districts, we will ensure that the helmets reach the hands of students.


-- The Nation 2013-05-15

[Maestro]

...Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is offering the application for both Apple and Android devices for free...

Where is the offer?

...Routes and traffic conditions can also be checked on http://traffic.longdo.com and http://www.trafficpolice.go.th/report.php.

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traffic.longdo.com:

trafficpolice.go.th:

I prefer Google Maps:

[konfuzed]

ok, so this will join all the other free apps - there is a longdo app, there is a waze app that tracks users, there is an app called traffy... and i already have a BMA app from quite some time ago, so what's the new app?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bma-live-traffic/id555308357?mt=8

is the one i already have...

Edited May 15, 2013 by konfuzed

[rubl]

In a related newsflash the RTP has announced a crackdown on the use of phones and other electronic devices while driving.

Tongue-in-cheeky

[lee b]

is it not againsed the law to use mobile devices while driving?

[lomatopo]

is it not againsed the law to use mobile devices while driving?

I assume not. After all many vehicles have GPS systems, and I assume those qualify as "mobile devices"?

There are many laws regarding the use of mobile phones; some prohibit texting by the driver, and some require the use of 'hands-free' operation, again for the driver. I'd be willing to bet there are no limitations on what passengers can do.

[HerbalEd]

Great they're "offering" an app. Where????

[steveyinasia]

There are many road laws in Thailand, just that most of them are ignored and not enforced by the useless BIB. They are too busy taking money to notice what is really going on.

[RBOP]

Links don't work.

[lomatopo]

Found on the Play Store, have not used:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hlt.tvis&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImhsdC50dmlzIl0.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nsc.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uc2MuYW5kcm9pZCJd

Google Maps displays traffic within "Layers" but not sure how reliable/accurate it is.

[Greer]

The Traffic layer on Google Maps is ok - it seems that they have recently upgraded the granularity of the data, as I see the segments covered are much shorter than before, where great swathes of road were shown in green or red, even when I knew that only applied to one section at the start - but now I see actual jammed sections near t-intersections and all, and it seemed more closely related to the actual conditions than it used to be - having said that, I noticed these changes a couple of weeks ago, so it may not be like that now...hehe...