Monday, 1 October 2012
Traffic congestion problem in Bangkok.
First time, I saw the title of this news, I felt confident that Bangkok will be on the list surly.
According to “10 monstertraffic jams from around the world”, the article is about the name of ten cities which has a lot of traffic congestion and the less traffic congestion city is French Alps.
In the part, Bangkok already had a lot of traffic on road, but did not has a lot of car as the present because there are the high tax rates including in car’s prices. However, nowadays, Thai Government enforced their new policy to encourage buyers for the first new car because they made the promised word about it before we did the election in 2011. Their policies looked likely a promotion and most of Thai people love their promotions because they get benefits from it that is why she won the election and be the Thai’s prime minister.
I completely believed that the governor of Thai government already knew about Bangkok’s problems because she lives in Bangkok, but she and her conspiracies still used this policy to spoil our tax money to her supporters.
____________________________________________________________
Reference
10 monstertraffic jams from around the world. (2012, September 30). BBC News Magazine, Retrieved October 1, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19716687
11 comments:
Before you click the blue "Publish" button for your first comment on a post, check ✔ the "Notify me" box. You want to know when your classmates contribute to a discussion you have joined.
A thoughtful response should normally mean writing for five to ten minutes. After you state your main idea, some details, explanation, examples or other follow up will help your readers.
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
According to Bas's chosen article, Vincent Bowler in Megeve does even better than me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I decided to live in Bangkok, the first thing I realised was that my home had to be near everything I normally wanted, so I've in the Bangrak area all the time.
It now takes me between 10 and 12 minutes to walk to work at a relaxed pace. And what causes that 20% fluctuation? The time it takes me to cross first Surawong Road and then Rama 4 in front of AUA. But Vincent's daily commutes to and from work only take 10 to 12 seconds. And his view is a bit more pleasant. I'm just a little envious.
I agree with Peter that we need to live where we normally go so that we can go there by foot. It is no matter how near your current place and your destination is, it can basically take one or two hours to reach there by car or anything running on the ground. In a last couple weeks, I went to Siam Paragon from Central Childlom,and it took me two hours to reach there in the evening. Even though they are not far from each other because it takes only one bts station to reach each other. Perhaps, we just live in the place that bts or mrt can be accessible.
ReplyDeletePeter, perhaps your envious Vincent's daily, shall you rent or own some place in chamchuri square? It might be better than Vincent's daily life sytle because you didn't travel to other place just only taking the lift to reach AUA.
ReplyDeleteI liked this subject because I really think that traffic congestion is a real problem in Bangkok. Here, if you need to go to someplace by car or by bus or by taxi, you probably will spend a big time on traffic congestion. Sometimes this can be one or two hours stuck in traffic jam. Is terrible!
ReplyDeleteMaybe, a good thing to do is, like Peter and Peace said, live near the places that you used to go, like work, school, banks, hospital, shoppings and supermarkets. Then, we can go there by foot or taking only BTS or MRT, because these are so fast.
I do realize that the capital city of Thailand has been facing the traffic jam since my father was a high school student, as he told me. And I think we (I mean all Bangkokians and Thai Governments) never fix the real problem. The previous solutions include about building bridges crossing over intersections, or tunnels going underground that helps avoid wasting time for the traffic lights, and constructing more express ways as well as more bridges crossing the Chaopraya River.
ReplyDeleteA present government's policy, lower tax for buying the first car, is just a new problem but not all parts of the problem. In my opinion, the policy benefits those who need to drive cars for their jobs, such as fruit and vegetable merchants, and farmers, and also people in rural areas. Most of them lack their capital, so that means they lose chance to possess the very important vehicle for their life. On the contrary, many people in cities, especially in Bangkok, see that it is their chance to buy a car at a really cheaper price despite their unnecessary reason. The decision also depends on their own perception whether they can accept the traffic problem or not.
Moreover, the public transport system has not yet improved in both quality and quantity. Many buses without air conditioners are not interested a lot of people because they would not like to catch any hot public vehicles while the number of air-con buses still don't meet people's demand. For other kinds of public transportation, skytrain, underground train, and BRT (Bangkok Rapid Transit) bus services are provided in short lines that limited the flow of travelling inside Bangkok.
Another important point is that most people in Bangkok are supposed to use their private cars because of its convenience. Commuting from house to workplace by public services is not good for many people in high position at their offices because it means they cannot afford their own car, in other word, they are poorer than people in lower positions that own cars and they gonna lose face.
Anyway, I think we have many ways to avoid traffic jams, but would we like to do and also fix the problem together?
Definitely, I do not cause terrible traffic jam in Bangkok because I have never thought about owning a car. And, I do not know why?. This problem is suffered me little because mostly when I am stuck in this situation, I always sleep in a van or bus. I feel really fresh when I slept even it is really short. As many people in Bangkok knew, if you have a car, it mean you need parking lot. And you can find some where to park when you wake up and arrive at office earlier than others.
ReplyDeleteConsequently, to reduce traffic jam in Bangkok use public transportation system and be happy everywhere you are.
I think one of the cause of traffic jam is parking on streets. I've seen the cars which can't drive smoothly because of other parked cars many times. But it is difficult problem because I know it is hard to build many parking lots in the city like Bangkok and also Tokyo in Japan.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree and the best way for solve this problem is improvement city train in Bangkok to be like Tokyo.
DeleteI think so too, but public transport in Tokyo has so many routes. It is too complicated for me! I think this is also a problem.
DeleteIn Japan, when people register their cars, they have to submit the pariking certificate, which proves that they have proper parking place for thier cars. Government thinks they can reduce on-street parking,which causes traffic jam, buy this rule, but there are still many cars on streets in Japan, in spite of heavy fine for illegal parking. Because of traffic jam and expensive parking fee, more and more people ( expecially young people) give up having cars. It's good for environment, but not good for Japanese car companies, I think.
ReplyDeleteChieko, don't worry about those Japanese car manufacturers!!! We, Thai people, are their loyal customers.
Delete