TACKLING TRAFFIC
Bangkok's traffic is notorious. During the day the population of the city swells to around nine million people, and published data shows that at least two million use private vehicles.
My own experience is that some of the chaos can be reduced by encouraging car-pooling, or even restricting certain key roads or bridges to multi-occupancy vehicles at certain times of the day. It's always amazing to me just how many cars there are with just a driver and no passengers.
Implementing restrictions isn't as far-fetched as it might sounds - there are already restrictions on goods vehicles at certain times of the day. Buses are a cheap option but they're incredibly overcrowded at peak times, and the sky train and subway are efficient yet lack penetration to large parts of the city.
The problem is not going to disappear overnight, but with economic conditions improving the problem can only get worse without some serious intervention.
3 comments:
How about increasing the price of parking to deter people from driving into the city?
That might work Sanne but I wonder how many people get free or reduced price parking as part of their job? There will also be any number of owners of vacant plots of land willing to let people park for around 30 baht per day. That's so cheap.
I guess that comes down to the Thai infrastructure department (or whatever they call it) to tighten regulations on what you can use your plot of land for.
Instead of giving free or reduced price parking, why not give a transport allowance?
*Sigh. If only everyone can do a bit to cut down pollution.
You have a good day! :)
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