Police to tighten traffic law to ensure travel safety during New Year festival

 

 

BANGKOK: -- As New Year festival is just less than a week ahead, all relevant government agencies are preparing to launch nationwide campaign to ensure the safety and security of all people who are to start travelling out of the capital to celebrate this week.

 

Most critical among the campaign is the effort to minimize traffic accidents which regularly occur during the notorious ‘7 Dangerous Days’.

 

In Bangkok, Metropolitan Police Bureau commissioner called a meeting with all police stations in the capital to enforce strict traffic rules during the so called ‘7 Dangerous Days’ from December 29-January 4, 2017.

 

He has stipulated that all street racing will be strictly forbidden and roadblocks will be setup to carry out alcohol checks. Also six-wheeled trucks have been asked to stop running in the capital from December 26, 2016 to January 3, 2017.

 

Similarly the Region 1 Provincial Police Bureau has also called a meeting of all its 31 units to prepare the enforcement of strict traffic regulations during the coming New Year holidays.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/police-tighten-traffic-law-ensure-travel-safety-new-year-festival/

 

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Same BS. Just a different year.

What traffic rules ? oh raffety rules thats right whos going to catch the idiots on the road where there is no check point ????

 

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

 

Last year, the line of slow moving cars on Northbound bypass (highway 2) around the city was so long, I couldn't see the end of it.

 

7 days of staying home and off the roads for us. 

How about driving tests and licenses? Too many lives lost each year on these roads.
Saying that you can't read shouldn't mean that your exempt from the test and get an automatic pass.

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Also six-wheeled trucks have been asked to stop running in the capital from December 26, 2016 to January 3, 2017.

 

 

And the response from the operators was......?

1 minute ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Also six-wheeled trucks have been asked to stop running in the capital from December 26, 2016 to January 3, 2017.

 

 

And the response from the operators was......?

"get forked"

He has stipulated that all street racing will be strictly forbidden.

 

So it's OK to do it during the other 51 weeks then 

The RTP's threat to tighten any law is akin to fitting a kit intended for a Russian shot putter onto an Ethiopian marathon runner. 

2 hours ago, naruk86 said:

How about driving tests and licenses? Too many lives lost each year on these roads.
Saying that you can't read shouldn't mean that your exempt from the test and get an automatic pass.

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If they want to be strict then driving with out a licence should mean confiscation of the car or bike and crushing it. (Should apply to all serious traffic offences).

 

If they want to be strict then driving with out a licence should mean confiscation of the car or bike and crushing it. (Should apply to all serious traffic offences).
 

A donation for the officers meals for the day should be sufficient to swerve that

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Same old message every year. Laws not properly enforced. Same outcome. It wont change anytime soon with the current regime.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

As New Year festival is just less than a week ahead, all relevant government agencies are preparing to launch nationwide campaign to ensure the safety and security of all people who are to start travelling out of the capital to celebrate this week.

 

 

Hehee..heheee heheee... oh man  

Same ol' same ol' song .

 

Roadblocks by the BiB s that just make more traffic jams

No patrols, no speed traps, no cameras...

Lots of brown envelopes, and dead and maimed people..

Yes, I know about the lack of tests too, for drivers and vehicles, just a waste of breath.

Blah, blah, usual verbal diarrhea at this time of year... the only people that benefit are the BIB with all their extra checkpoints, threatening loss of vehicle, or licence, unless a $$$ bribe is paid.. easy money....

Associating Police with Law, in Thailand, in just one sentence, is IMHO making a very bold statement...

until the twelfth of never...