NCPO sets D-Day for implementation of the new van service regulation on July 1st

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NCPO sets D-Day for implementation of the new van service regulation on July 1st

BANGKOK, 26 June 2014 (NNT) - The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will implement new regulations on van service in the capital on July 1st.

Van operators providing passenger service in the vicinity of the Victory Monument are required by the date to refrain from parking for extended time at the unloading zone, and instead, to just pick up passengers and leave.

All vans must also share only one ticket stall at a specified point, settle a permanent location of van station, and to register their vehicles with the authorities before resuming their service.

The new regulations, which will be implemented on July 1st, are aimed at reorganising passenger van services which are plying 59 routes around the area, eliminating bribery, while reducing traffic congestion during rush hours.


-- NNT 2014-06-26

[Luk Mhee]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

[iphad]

I'm sure there will some posters posting here that' it's all talk & no action

[EyesWideOpen]

Forget the parking issue. They are killing people like flies due to speeding and

lunatic driving, that is what the NCPO needs to control somehow. And also

make it a mandatory 10 year sentence for fleeing the scene of an accident.....

[iphad]

Forget the parking issue. They are killing people like flies due to speeding and

lunatic driving, that is what the NCPO needs to control somehow. And also

make it a mandatory 10 year sentence for fleeing the scene of an accident.....

I was close

[jcisco]

A lot of these vans are not the province bound type but the suburban routes of bkk. I haven't ever been in one that was in any danger of driving lunatic like.

I think a lot of TVF people do not realise this and only have experience with them on the highways or border running.

But yes they are a menance on highways with high speed tailgaiting being a frightful experience in the front passenger seat.

[ramrod711]

The speeding issue could be easily handled at low cost. Install transponders in the vans have a receiver at the monument and at 100 km intervals. Alternatively, make it mandatory for vans to have gps monitored by transportation officials. I was a professional driver for 27 years, US and Canada, pull into a weigh station they could tell me exactly how long it had been since I stopped at the last one. I refuse to ride in the vans anymore, death traps on wheels.

[technologybytes]

It looks like Thailand is being cleaned up at last.

Only thing is that the wild west nature of Thailand is what attracted me in the first place. Too much regulation and it won't be Thailand any more.

[hanuman2543]

Don't forget the safety belts

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[Jim walker]

A tacograph in all commercial vehicles recoding all movement speed and time length of the movement and the vehicle will only move if the tacograph is activated with an authorised digital card with all the drivers’ qualifications and details stored on it. Simple Thailand just needs to move into the 21^st century rather than the ox and cart league.

[wvavin]

Lets see what is going to happen on the 1st of July.

[millwall_fan]

Ahem...er anti coup as I am, er as a resident of Victory Monument, I must admit - grudgingly - that regulating the minibuses in this area would be a good idea.

[iphad]

Ahem...er anti coup as I am, er as a resident of Victory Monument, I must admit - grudgingly - that regulating the minibuses in this area would be a good idea.

but as an anti coup guy you could say that yeah the regulating the vans is an ok idea but they drive too fast & they look like ox carts

[Lazzar]

It looks like Thailand is being cleaned up at last.

Only thing is that the wild west nature of Thailand is what attracted me in the first place. Too much regulation and it won't be Thailand any more.

Just visually and temporary. It is still mentally is pretty much chaotic.

[Yann55]

Forget the parking issue. They are killing people like flies due to speeding and

lunatic driving, that is what the NCPO needs to control somehow. And also

make it a mandatory 10 year sentence for fleeing the scene of an accident.....

I was close

... and you will notice that the poster quotes her/himself in her/his profile right after quoting the great G.B. Shaw. Wasn't it Winston Churchill who referred to a person he'd met as 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about' ? hahaha I think we have a good specimen here

[Teddy3943]

On what website i can praise the present authorities for their action management. Let's all give big thumbs up.

[mok199]

this is so entertaining....

[soidog52]

Used to be the HIACE vans: High Impact Asian Crash Equipment!

[kartman]

So once they are registered there will be lots of vans circling the Monument stop pick up,circle stop pick up,circle stop pick up, circle stop pick up lots of dizzy passengers .

[FangFerang]

Ahem...er anti coup as I am, er as a resident of Victory Monument, I must admit - grudgingly - that regulating the minibuses in this area would be a good idea.

but as an anti coup guy you could say that yeah the regulating the vans is an ok idea but they drive too fast & they look like ox carts

but as a pro coup guy you could say that yeah the pension pledging scheme does not resemble the rice pledging scheme because...

I still give the General a B-, but judging from what passes as an education standard here that puts him at the top of his class.

The van fiasco is dangerous, annoying and has needed fixing for a very long time. Vans +1, Pension -1 --- same same.

[PaulHamon]

how about speed limiting the van to 90km/h for safety.

[IAMSOBAD]

Maybe check for drivers not licensed and for seat belts and insurance and yabba addiction. These drivers lose face with other moron drivers and start road rage racing.

Just a thought

[Nuddy]

The Military through the Good General are trying to sort out the traffic flows and to cut out the corruption.

The vans seem to think when driving on the Kings roads that they are a law unto themselves.

Getting them to behave themselves is a difficult task but it appears that the Good General is working on this aspect.

Anyone who can get the traffic flowing in Bangkok has my vote of appreciation.

Regards

[ratcatcher]

this is so entertaining....

Would you be prepared to share your little secret with the rest of us?

[badmedicine]

I like these coup people.

One by one, they're sorting problems out that have needed to be sorted out for decades, but ignored both by Thaksin and the Democrats.

I'd rather have benign dictators than evil parliamentarians. Long may their good intentions last.

[maximillian]

Keep going, General, you still have a very long way ahead of you. Keep going.

[stoli]

I'm sure there will some posters posting here that' it's all talk & no action

Seems like you are the first....

[PattayaPhom]

The speeding issue could be easily handled at low cost. Install transponders in the vans have a receiver at the monument and at 100 km intervals. Alternatively, make it mandatory for vans to have gps monitored by transportation officials. I was a professional driver for 27 years, US and Canada, pull into a weigh station they could tell me exactly how long it had been since I stopped at the last one. I refuse to ride in the vans anymore, death traps on wheels.

And let's get cameras everywhere etc. Lest not forget why many people like it here

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[tezzainoz]

The speeding issue could be easily handled at low cost. Install transponders in the vans have a receiver at the monument and at 100 km intervals. Alternatively, make it mandatory for vans to have gps monitored by transportation officials. I was a professional driver for 27 years, US and Canada, pull into a weigh station they could tell me exactly how long it had been since I stopped at the last one. I refuse to ride in the vans anymore, death traps on wheels.

And let's get cameras everywhere etc. Lest not forget why many people like it here

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what I see is a pack of (F.Deleted) (Deleted) trying to change Thailand into America

when will this people see thailand the way it is is why thousands flee to Thailand to get away from over governing

[moe666]

Too many here want a nanny state, more rules, more regulation, do this, do not do that, go back to where you came from all these rules and regulation you are dieing for is what you ran away from. When you get a little more are sure to follow.