Transport Dept to enforce 'birth control' after tuk-tuk numbers hit 9,000

[webfact]

Transport Dept to enforce 'birth control' after tuk-tuk numbers hit 9,000
By Coconuts Bangkok


Photo: Briyyz

BANGKOK: -- After learning that there are more than 9,000 tuk-tuks on the roads in Bangkok, the Land Transport Department plans to implement a method of “birth control” to cut back on the numbers.

Land Transport Department director-general Sanit Phromsathit said the number of tuk-tuks is excessive and makes it hard to supervise their operations.

Tuk-tuks need "birth control," said Sanit. Officials will halt new registrations of tuk-tuks except those under a tuk-tuk scheme run by the Transport Ministry to promote tuk-tuk driving as a career as well as the use of clean energy.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/04/15/transport-dept-enforce-birth-control-after-tuk-tuk-numbers-hit-9000


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2016-04-15

[colinneil]

Tuk tuks do not need birth control. They need to be banned, nothing but a menace.

[KMartinHandyman]

Highly effective transportation in a city gridlocked with cars,trucks and buses. Move a few people and their bags with sun and rain protection.

[Slaps]

.

Well I agree with both the above

But the (Deleted) do drive like (Deleted) idiots

Sometimes

.

[taony]

After learning? Who told them?

[steve187]

i think they are a much needed form of transport, everything is snarled up in Bangkok and these beauties seem to solve some of the problems for some, they are part of Thailand,

lets not try and make Thailand like the west, where we are trying to escape from the petty pc correct mindset, all forms of transport in Thailand are dangerous, but lets make the big buses and minibuses ( flying coffins ) safer first.