Bangkok discusses bicycle safety

[Lite Beer]

Bangkok discusses bicycle safety

BANGKOK, 15 May 2015 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has held a meeting on cycling safety and the progress of developing bicycle lanes.

BMA Deputy Permanent Secretary Adisak Kantee presided over the meeting on cycling safety regulations, and the process of developing bicycle lanes along the Nongbon Lake and Khlong Saen Saeb Canal at the Bangkok City Hall.

The meeting discussed the safety measures for both cyclists and road users, and looked into the types of bicycle lanes appropriate for different road material. Bicycle lanes will be required to be illuminated at night, have lane barriers, and municipal officials should be deployed to keep orderliness at each route.

The meeting has also fixed the speed limit for vehicles running in the leftmost lane at 50 km/hr on roads with designated bike lane, and at 30 km/hr on shared lane roads.

On the progress of Nongbon Lake bicycle lane construction, the meeting has made a revision on the path layout, while 200 meters of land strip has already been completed. For the Khlong Saen Saeb Canal bicycle lane, 19.44 kilometres of the entire path is now under construction, with the budget approved already for 33.08 kilometres of section, and the remaining 4.49 kilometres is now pending for budgetary approval.

The district offices where the bicycle paths will cross have been ordered to ramp up on canal bridges to allow cyclists to cross the bridges on their bicycles.

-- NNT 2015-05-15

[tingtongfarang]

Bicycle lanes will be required to be illuminated at night? nongbon closes at 6pm! also they have been riding there since i can remember,

Thais seem to have the whole idea of bicycles arse about face, why does it have to be about lycra clad people on carbon fiber framed ultra expencive things that are afraid to park them anywhere.

[HyperRai]

Killing a bicycle rider costs 7500,- THB and maybe some social work...for a Thai. For a Farang killing a Thai bicycle rider maybe a bit (100 times) more. Parking a car on a bicycle lane is ?100 THB?. Parking on handicapped ground....free. Useless!

[espinoza]

They are not serious about this. Its just a joke. Thailand needs as much bicycle-/ walkways as the western world if they are serious. That means probably more than 50.000. km just in the city aareas.In addition it comes along every highways. One million km more. In many European countries this is already done. Something to reach????

[clockman]

They just love to talk.

[Stan42]

Riding through Bangkok on a bicycle? You got some kind of death wish?