Greater Bangkok buses get English characters

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- English characters will appear in Greater Bangkok’s bus-numbering system on select routes in a one-month trial. 

 

Starting Tuesday, the characters will appear on eight new routes including G21 (Rangsit-Rama V Pier); G59E (Min Buri-Si Phraya Pier via the expressway); R3 (Rama IX Park-National Stadium); and R41 (Tok Road-Happyland).

 

The other routes are Y59 (Taling Chan Train Station-Krathum Ban); Y61 (Settakij Village-Chatuchak Bus Terminal); B44 (Rama IX-Suttisarn) and B45 (Ua Arthon Beung Kum-Memorial Bridge).

 

“G” stands for green, “R” for red, “Y” for yellow and “B” for blue.

 

The B area covers inner suburbs of Greater Bangkok and some of its northern parts; G is for eastern and northeastern parts; R for southern and southeastern parts; and Y for southern and western parts. 

 

“E” stands for expressways.

 

To ensure commuters do not get confused, the old route numbers are visible on the front of buses.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30323747

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-14

That's hard to see after dark...can they not make it from LED lights?

F1 stands for Formula One ie. won't stop, may stop somewhere sometime, or will stop in the middle of anywhere anytime.

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Why make it a trial ? If they indeed want to participate fully in ASEAN standards then it's high time they make English a mandatory language on all public buildings and transit. Phase it in for 5 years, with both English and Thai signage and jettison the Thai after that.

 

You may never get the public speaking or comprehending spoken English but most Thais already know the alphabet and this would be a step towards at least gaining partial participation. Then same concept applies with Arabic numbers (what we use in the west), and now almost universally this has replaced Thai scripting for numbers. Time to start.

Perhaps they should switch out all the road signs to English only at the same time. It'll be a crash course in language study!

There goes being the only farang on the bus...

There will be a backlash, laws past, protests...

Not Thainess

Good News.

"Greater Bangkok buses get English characters"

 

My first thought was they were going to employ smock clad people to sit on the buses, chewing on a straw and saying "ooh aah", in between drinking cider and complaining about the weather.