Transport company signs new Bangkok-Vientiane bus service agreement

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Transport company signs new Bangkok-Vientiane bus service agreement
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BANGKOK, Jan 15 -- Thailand's state-run Transport Company signed a Thailand-Laos bus service agreement for the sixth bilateral route between Bangkok and Vientiane.

Wuthichart Kalyanamitra, President of the Transport Company, today signed the agreement with Jitprasong Luangdetmeechai, director of the Jitprasong Yodniyom Company.

Transport Company has operated buses on the Bangkok-Vientiane route since Oct 1, 2012.

The 648 kilometre trip takes 10 hours at a fare of Bt900.

The service was earlier governed by a contract with a Lao transport state enterprise on the condition that each side operated one trip daily.

Last September the Lao government proposed terminating the contract because it had no buses with the same standard as the Transport Company.

The Lao government asked Transport Co to seal the deal with the Jitprasong Yodniyom Company instead.

Mr Wuthichart said that since 2004 the Transport Co had operated regular bus services to Laos and Cambodia on 14 routes including routes from Bangkok to Pakse, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh and received a warm welcome from travelers. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2015-01-15

[robertthebruce]

As great as it sounds..

Honestly how safe a travel would this be ???

Cheap yes, but thats where it ends..

It will take some years to make any form of ''Road Transport'' safe in ''Thailand''... until then, the Carnage continues...

Negative, NO, Realistic 'YES''..

[SOTIRIOS]

...hope they enforce drug screening of drivers........speed limiters and GPS in the vehicles....and at least a 'co-pilot'....

...to reduce and prevent the road carnage that we read about daily......

[AloisAmrein]

Air Asia flight with 15 kg luggage to Udon Thani 990 Baht, bus from Udon to Vientiane about 100 Baht

[Nemesis7]

Wishing a grand success

[Papayabokbok]

I will stick with the sleeper train......slow and steady wins the race everytime--or at least improve my odds here

[Tomtomtom69]

...hope they enforce drug screening of drivers........speed limiters and GPS in the vehicles....and at least a 'co-pilot'....

...to reduce and prevent the road carnage that we read about daily......

They sure do. They need a "spare" in there once they start driving on the Lao/Cambodian side, where traffic moves on the right-hand side of the road. Otherwise overtaking would be quite dicey, given the length of buses. Granted however that for the Vientiane route this is not a big concern as first of all, it's only 20km from the Thai border to the bus station where the bus terminates and secondly, the road that takes you there is dual carriageway so there's no need to overtake into oncoming traffic.

But on Cambodian routes it's a different story altogether...

[Tomtomtom69]

I would imagine that the cross-border services operated by the Transport Company in conjunction with their Lao/Cambodian counterparts drive quite sensibly. I've seen both the Thai and Cambodian registered Bangkok-Siem Reap and Bangkok-Phnom Penh services drive on both sides of the border and they drove pretty sensibly to me.

An accident on one of these bus routes could have the potential to cause an international incident and the last thing Cambodia, Laos or even Thailand would want is some bus carnage on an international bus, which could have the potential to cause the governments of one of the countries to cancel the service due to safety concerns.