Thai Senate hosts seminar to discuss Land Traffic Act

BANGKOK, 23 May 2016 (NNT) – The Secretariat of the Senate has held a seminar on the enforcement of the Land Traffic Act, B.E. 2557, hoping to make people better understand the country’s traffic laws.

The opening ceremony of the seminar was presided over by the second vice president of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), Peerasak Porjit, who said the Land Traffic Act is one of the laws issued two years ago by the legislature. Since the enactment of the law, there has been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding among the public; therefore, the main goal of the seminar was not only to follow up on the enforcement of the law, but also to help people understand it better.

Meanwhile, Pol Maj Gen Adul Narongsak, a deputy Bangkok police chief in charge of traffic, said up to 1.6 million tickets were issued during the past year but only 500,000 violators came forward to pay their fines.

He said traffic laws are not well enforced in Thai society and that there should be more effective ways for traffic discipline to be inculcated in the behavior of errant drivers.


-- NNT 2016-05-23

So it appears that this seminar came up with 2 facts!

1. It is optional to pay traffic fines and manifestly unenforcable.

2. Thai society is to blame for the lack of enforcement of traffic laws.

No mention of Police not doing their job and enforcing the law! You can have as many laws, traffic regulations, seminars, crackdowns etc as you like, but until the Police start enforcing those laws on a daily basis, nothing will happen! If you want to learn about proper traffic enforcement, you only have to watch the UK tv programmes like Motorway Patrol or Police Interceptors. Now that is enforcement!

Its the Thai public's fault u-turns are so dangerous and there is a complete lack of roads.

one way to make people pay the fines is to tie all the fines to the vehicle they are driving, not just the driver. it will be up to the owner of the vehicle to pay and prove who was driving. if fines aren't paid then cannot register the vehicle. The fines need to be a lot more expensive if not paid on time. of course enforcement will always be the problem, and this method will probably only result in a lot more unregistered cars drving about.

Laughable !

An 'opening ceremony' for a seminar?

Egad.

Winnie

An 'opening ceremony' for a seminar?

Egad.

Winnie

The opening ceremony is the really important part.

The closing ceremony almost so.

The bit in between, the content if you like -no cameras present, don't bother...

An 'opening ceremony' for a seminar?

Egad.

Winnie

Got to have an opening ceremony, wais bowing and scraping and flowers for all.

Then lunch and that's day one satisfactorily taken care of.

I didn't know Thailand had a senate at the moment.