Five busy roads with worst traffic jams in Bangkok

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Five busy roads with worst traffic jams in Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- The Transport Ministry has revealed five busiest roads in the capital that have the worst traffic jams with traffic flow speed of 24.34 kilometres an hour.

The five busiest roads are;

1. Ngamwongwan road from Yaek Kaelai to Yaek Kaset.
2. Sri Ayutthaya road from Yaek Makkasan to Yaek Sisao Theves.
3. Sukhumvit road from Yaek Bang Na to Yaek Ploenjit.
4. Phaholyothin road from Yaek Laksi to Yaek Lardprao.
5. Ratchadapisek road from Yaek Ratchavibha to Yaek Rama 9.

The ministry said average traffic flow speed from Yaek Kaelai to Yaek Kaset has dropped from 36.95 kms/hr in 2011 to 24.34 kms/hr in 2013.

It said main reasons for the traffic jams on this section of the road were gridlocks where continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting roads, construction of subway and sky train projects, railway crossings, and toll gates of the expressway system where vehicles queuing up to pay toll.

It also said there are 34 railway crossings which cause traffic jams in the capital. They included Yommaraj, Sri Ayutthaya, Ratchavithi, Nakhon Chaisri, Sethsiri, Ranong 1, Pradipat, Prachanives, Ngamwongwan, Chaengwattana, Talad Son Mueang Kao, Air Force HQ.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/five-busy-roads-worst-traffic-jams-bangkok/

-- Thai PBS 2014-11-14

[Lammbock]

More fly overs!!!, more fly overs!!!

[rasmus5150]

Wow. If I could drive more than 24 kms/hr on any of the mentioned roads I would be very happy. I think that they calculate the speed over a 24 hour period, because in the daytime the traffic moves at max 5 kms/hr.

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

#1 - lack of City planning. Start making more roads go through to somewhere.

#2 - too many taxi's just driving around, get rid of half of them. Make taxi stands so taxi's aren't stopping and negotiating how much they will rip you off while blocking traffic for everyone else.

#3 - police selling the streets for their own profit so rip-off taxi's can clutter up the roads while they wait to extort passengers.

[sprq]

Quote: It said main reasons for the traffic jams on this section of the road were gridlocks where continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting roads, construction of subway and sky train projects, railway crossings, and toll gates of the expressway system where vehicles queuing up to pay toll.

No, the main reason is that too many vehicles try to use the roads because there is no adequate public transport, there are parking spaces for them at businesses, shopping centres and entertainment places (not so in central London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, etc, etc), and people want to gain face by driving around.

Solve those and traffic jams will ease rapidly. In other words, there's no hope.

[klauskunkel]

and then there is the spontaneous double-parking, where one just has to impulse-buy something at a sidewalk market...

Edited November 14, 2014 by klauskunkel

[toooa]

"Yaek Sisao Theves" brilliant rendition of what is suppose to be "Thewet"...

[mortenaa]

Wow. If I could drive more than 24 kms/hr on any of the mentioned roads I would be very happy. I think that they calculate the speed over a 24 hour period, because in the daytime the traffic moves at max 5 kms/hr.

This is very accurate. From my condo close to Thonglor to Terminal 21, I sometimes average 5-6 km/h. If the temperature dropped a few degrees, I would be happy to walk!

[richusa]

Wow. If I could drive more than 24 kms/hr on any of the mentioned roads I would be very happy. I think that they calculate the speed over a 24 hour period, because in the daytime the traffic moves at max 5 kms/hr.

This is very accurate. From my condo close to Thonglor to Terminal 21, I sometimes average 5-6 km/h. If the temperature dropped a few degrees, I would be happy to walk!

It's a 15 minute walk, lazy. At 8-9 am it's not hot, at 5pm it's not hot. What an excuse?

[rickirs]

Just wait until those ten bridges over the Chao Phraya River are feeding cars into Bangkok by 2021.

[Baerboxer]

On Wednesday and Thursday this week the late morning traffic seemed very light around the Soi Ekkamai area. Much less volume than normal and noticeably so.

Anyone else notice?

[Halion]

They have also forgotten to mention another important factor which promotes gridlocked roads and that is the RTP traffic controls at major intersections where police officers determine the time phasing of the red and green lights. It would be interesting to know how they determine the allocation of time phasing as the only thing that makes sense is that certain roads are designated as priority roads for one reason or another on instruction from the faceless ones. It has to be remembered that influential people should not be burdened with traffic jams.

[maidee]

no thai is allowed, but what the hell is a YAEK ?

Edited November 14, 2014 by maidee

[cup-O-coffee]

This is not news. It is the laws of physics and maths all at once engaged in a battle against the HUB of malignant schemes. These arterial gridlocks remind me of what must be daily happening in their minds: "continuous queues of (blank thoughts) block an entire network of intersecting (synapses)"

[fakser]

I suffered for 6 years the daily atrocities of public transportation in Krungthep until I purchased a scooter. My life have changed for ever.

Each trip that took me 1.5-2 hours is done now in 20 minutes. Suddenly I have few more free hours in the day.

I can do more tasks and enjoy the life in this giant city.

[rasmus5150]

 

I suffered for 6 years the daily atrocities of public transportation in Krungthep until I purchased a scooter. My life have changed for ever.

Each trip that took me 1.5-2 hours is done now in 20 minutes. Suddenly I have few more free hours in the day.

I can do more tasks and enjoy the life in this giant city.

 

Until you become a statistic in the yearly traffic deaths, on the second most deadly roads in the world. I really hope you survive.

[SeaVisionBurma]

no thai is allowed, but what the hell is a YAEK ?

It is the Romanization of the Thai word for sub-soi as far as I know. And it is acceptable here in this context.

(someone with far better Thai language than me can correct this!)

[rgs2001uk]

no thai is allowed, but what the hell is a YAEK ?

It is the Romanization of the Thai word for sub-soi as far as I know. And it is acceptable here in this context.

(someone with far better Thai language than me can correct this!)

Almost correct, and I can understand why you thought this.

Yaek, means junction, you can have a see yaek, four way junction or a sam yaek, three way junction.

You often see the word yaek on the signposts on smaller sub sois, eg Yaek 17, it doesnt mean sub soi 17, it means junction 17.

Edit.

using the above as an example,

4. Phaholyothin road from Yaek Laksi to Yaek Lardprao.

This would mean from Laksi junction to Lat Prao junction.

Edited November 14, 2014 by rgs2001uk

[thrilled]

AllI know is Bangkok is A giant SNAFU.The tax scheme for new cars made it considerably worse.When I go to Bangkok I usually

Take the BTS.Um riding around on 2 wheels is A death sentence.I wouldn't live in this city if you paid me.

[mango66]

Wow. If I could drive more than 24 kms/hr on any of the mentioned roads I would be very happy. I think that they calculate the speed over a 24 hour period, because in the daytime the traffic moves at max 5 kms/hr.

Thai have different calculation !! it means 24 hrs per km !!

[mango66]

I am not so lucky, just 2 of my daily roads are mentioned :-(((

[jacko45k]

"Yaek Sisao Theves" brilliant rendition of what is suppose to be "Thewet"...

Well done, very relevant observation. That should ease traffic at that place, wherever it is!

[MarkCyr]

My ex used to insist on driving everywhere (hi-so), even though she lived about 2 minutes walk from Phrom Pong BTS. "Thais don't walk", she'd say. No, they spend 2 hours driving when they don't need to.

[EnglishJohn]

Whenever I've been on those roads, the biggest problem seems to be people parking in the left hand lane because they can't be bothered to go off the busy road and walk a bit.

Then the bus comes and has to double park so the next lane closes off as well.

Not to mention the taxi drivers who don't care where they park. They will just stop where they are without warning if they think a fare is walking towards them. No consideration at all for other road users.

[Tony Pepperoni]

And the police who keep the light red for 10 minutes to 20 minutes at a time... then makes the light green for only 10 seconds. It should be a computer or timer that switches the lights, not a police man in a booth that cannot see how far back he has caused the line of traffic to be. Sometimes the street traffic becomes so bad it's like a parking lot.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Tony Pepperoni

[Strangebrew]

Can cut traffic in half in one month easy but they want solution cost them 10,000,000 baht for answer. Got's to pay for brain power. And it will work plus reap huge rewards, and pay it's self off in less than year.