Court cancels one-way traffic in Nimmanhaeminda area

CHIANG MAI: The Chiang Mai Administrative Court has issued an injunction to put on hold the traffic police’s plan to introduce one-way traffic in odd-numbered sois in the Nimmanhaeminda area.

The court’s injunction which has become effective means that all the sois in the area will revert to two-way traffic which will help ease the hardship of the people in the area who are mostly entrepreneurs.

The Nimmanhaeminda road and its sois are bustled with many shops and eateries whose operators complained that the one-way traffic introduced by traffic police in the odd-numbered sois has affected their businesses because it is inconvenient for their customers to stop.

Pol Maj-Gen Montri Sumboonnanont, Chiang Mai police commander, said his office was in the process of collecting information to explain to the court the pros and cons of one-way traffic.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/165126

-- Thai PBS 2016-05-28

You have to laugh! Every time I have ventured into one of these sois it has been well nigh impossible to find street parking, so the volume of traffic cannot have been reduced which is the claim by traders. Cyclists, motosai and of course songtaews regularly ignored the one way direction and lately so have cars, because there is no one policing the situation. And the size and positioning of directional signage was abysmal, leading to frequent confusion amongst drivers turning into the sois from Sirimanklajarn and Nimmanhaemin. Until that whole area is reorganised along a clear plan and includes the use of pedestrianised sois and adequate parking these amateurish schemes will come to nothing.

Are those who brought about the previous traffic flow changes going to be fired, arrested, shown in public as dolts?

Come on Thailand, show some hair on your naked chest!