Can the traffffic get any worse?

[craigt3365]

9 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Well it is allowed here until improvements are made so get use to it.

There other roads you can use if you don't like the ones you use.

 

This high rate accident stuff,  carnage,  road deaths etc etc is always being bought up on threads.

Just curious to know how many say Westerners deaths happen per year are among the total. ? ? 

Get use to it?  Do you have any idea how many accidents that causes?  It's crazy.  Trucks pulling right out into traffic with no ability to merge and get up to speed.

 

The other roads would double the time to Bangkok.  Who would do that.  Ridiculous suggestion.

 

Please research why Thailand is perhaps the country with the highest number of road fatalities.  Plenty of very good articles that lay it all out.

[Kwasaki]

20 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Get use to it?  Do you have any idea how many accidents that causes?  It's crazy.  Trucks pulling right out into traffic with no ability to merge and get up to speed.

Try reading what l said and take a breath.

 

22 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Please research why Thailand is perhaps the country with the highest number of road fatalities.

Can't find what l asked hence the question.

[jeab1980]

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Well it is allowed here until improvements are made so get use to it.

There other roads you can use if you don't like the ones you use.

 

This high rate accident stuff,  carnage,  road deaths etc etc is always being bought up on threads.

Just curious to know how many say Westerners deaths happen per year are among the total. ? ? 

Look for the ones who dont post anymore maybe

[Kwasaki]

3 hours ago, jeab1980 said:

Look for the ones who dont post anymore maybe

Maybe they just died posting there opinion on TV and those who didn't agree with them caused them to have a heart attack.  

[chilli42]

On 7/25/2017 at 7:12 AM, Chou Anou said:

There's a great Thai short story (it's been translated into English as well), which won a SEA-Write literary award, from the early or mid-1990s, which takes a tongue-in-cheek (though not by much!) look at the traffic jams of those days.  The writer talks about the community that forms among drivers who are stopped in traffic for so long that they get out of their cars, walk around, get to know each other...one man even plants and tends a garden on the side of the highway.  Eventually, the main character in the story and his wife conceive a child in their car while stopped in traffic.  There's also reference in the story to a popular contraption of the time (100% real), a kind of porta-potty which enabled one to relieve oneself in one's car while sitting for hours in traffic jams.

There were two different port a potty's one for guys and one for girls.  These make great sense even today if you have youngish kids.

[geronimo]

On 7/24/2017 at 5:47 PM, Chou Anou said:

Pretty sure it's BEEN a lot worse (pre-economic crash 1990s)...

If you'd been here in the 1980s, you'd think this is wonderful!!!!

[bermondburi]

After living in Saudi for five years I'll never complain about Thai driving again. All you people complaining about driving in Thailand would last less than a day in Riyadh or Cairo before you were on the plane home.
In comparison, driving in Thailand is quite pleasant, the people are polite, easy on the horn, let you in etc.
There are also good clean pumps everywhere.
My only negative is that the road surfaces could be better.

Typical thai expats live to complain. Nothing better to do.

[dbrenn]

Eeee by gum the OP don't know e's born. Back in the 90's it'd take two months just to drive a couple of centimetres down Sukhumvit, so it would, and that were on a motorbiiike. 

[dabhand]

19 hours ago, bermondburi said:

After living in Saudi for five years I'll never complain about Thai driving again. All you people complaining about driving in Thailand would last less than a day in Riyadh or Cairo before you were on the plane home.
In comparison, driving in Thailand is quite pleasant, the people are polite, easy on the horn, let you in etc.
There are also good clean pumps everywhere.
My only negative is that the road surfaces could be better.

Typical thai expats live to complain. Nothing better to do.

Totally agree with your comments.

Was based in Riyadh for four years back in the early 80's and, more recently, in Cairo for twelve years. Once the local 'rules' of driving had been mastered I really enjoyed the experience of driving in such locations. The rule of the road tended to be, if there is a space, fill it. No matter if you are going left, right or straight on!! U-turns were a particular joy to behold. 

As for Thailand, for the first few days back in Thailand after returning from Cairo on holiday, my wife would be telling me to cut out the aggressive driving mode that I needed to use in Egypt. In comparison, Thailand was a breeze.

  

[Kwasaki]

20 hours ago, bermondburi said:

After living in Saudi for five years I'll never complain about Thai driving again. All you people complaining about driving in Thailand would last less than a day in Riyadh or Cairo before you were on the plane home.
In comparison, driving in Thailand is quite pleasant, the people are polite, easy on the horn, let you in etc.
There are also good clean pumps everywhere.
My only negative is that the road surfaces could be better.

Typical thai expats live to complain. Nothing better to do.

l concur,  many moons ago l was in Saudi a short while working but didn't drive,  it was then onto Qatar where l did have to drive, found it strange the first thing we were told was about the driving habits.

 

Driving on what they referred to as a highway of sorts saw some American cars off at the side of the road,  some were obviously had been crashed, how they did that was from racing one another,  others had just run out of petrol.

 

If you were in Doha town wasn't much of a city then and you were stopped at some traffic lights if nothing coming, Qatarians would bump you from behind and honk you to go.

 

The police would stop you if a front light was out but having no back lights didn't matter cause you are only going forward.

 

If a foreigner were in an accident no matter what happened it was your fault because you shouldn't be there.

I guess it's different now.