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48 minutes ago, eddie61 said:
On the other hand, a fare increase will help the government garner interest in public transport and infrastructure investments, funded and run by the private sector.... surely more efficiently than state run.
There is more than enough money in the public coffers to subsidise public transport for the good of everybody. The concept of helping private enterprise to make money out of it is woefully misplaced.
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3 hours ago, Xonax said:
As an elderly foreign senior, I already pay double the price as my Thai companions, who qualify for a 50% senior discount on BTS. However the special seats reserved for elderly people, is always occupied by young Thais.Ask them to get up and give you the seat then. I do. I'm 75 and totally entitled to do so.
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4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:
Okay. So it's up to them if they want to spend a considerable portion of their wage on taking the train. Personal choice if they consider the speed worth paying for ????
There you have somebody who has no idea how a city should run its public transport for the good of everybody. He's just like a hiso Thai.
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4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:
Those on basic wage take the bus. Those who might be termed middle class, the mass in my view, take the train.
You have a weird view of the mass.
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4 hours ago, moe666 said:
Since the begining the skytrain has never been about the poor Thais. Never saw a poor thai on the skytrain, since the opening. Infastrusture isn't that cheap to build and to maintain, the companies who run it need a return on there investment
But it should have been. Mass transit everywhere in the world bar Bangkok is designed for every kind of person with affordable fares. You should be promoting that, not being sorry for capitalist companies.
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5 hours ago, Disparate Dan said:
I don't think anyone has published the proposed scale of charges. How far would this B104 take you? Obviously from one end to the other, but no-one would want to do that on any kind of regular basis.
What would be crippling would be a rise in fares from, say, Siam to Bearing - a typical commute.
As it is, many locals use the train from further south as far as Bearing, as it's free, and then get off and change to buses - mainly the B8 open ones - for the rest of the journey. I guess at the northern end it will be the same. The operator of the southern section probably knows ridership will disappear if they charge.
Having different and competing operators on the same line is (I think) a uniquely Thai way to f8ck up the system. It all stems from the fact that no-one in authority here has ever even contemplated using public transport even to see what it's about, because it's so far beneath their dignty, so they haven't a clue how to run a railroad, as it were. They are only in it to trouser what they can, not provide a service.
How true that is. I recall sitting on the tube in London in the mid-80s and realising I was sitting next to Michael Foot, who had not long before been leader of the Labour Party and trying to become prime minister in the 1983 election. Ever seen a top Thai politician on the BTS, anybody? Nope, of course, except on a PR event with his own empty carriage.
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6 hours ago, mogandave said:
Let the people that ride it pay for it.
Let the people that don’t want to pay for it take a taxi, ride a bus or walk.
Wonderful city planning there. You have absolutely no idea how urban transport should be organised so as to benefit everybody and make an efficient city. But you have fellow thinkers in all the power positions in Bangkok, so enjoy the company of all those duffers who ruin the city.
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6 hours ago, jayboy said:
Am I right in thinking that the British Embassy no longer has a register of British citizens resident in Thailand? Is it possible (and encouraged) to register one's presence with the Embassy?
That is what I was told a few years ago.
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Public parks? I bet they're closed, even if not in the list.
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And because of all the human attention, which is what drove them away in the first place, it won't come back.
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Got up today at the end of the night and saw a full moon descending from my balcony in inner Bangkok. Then black figures went whizzing by at balcony level, about 10 metres off the ground. Can't be birds, surely, must be bats, I thought. How they speed!
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Ah, so that's why we've been having such bad weather.
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Phuket City Municipality inviting everyone to join the festivities and catch Covid.
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Back in the 90s in Bangkok, I was pruning a tree in my garden that overhung the soi, when a huge swarm of hornets came out of it and attacked me. I ran like hell up the soi, my arms flailing around my head trying to ward them off, in absolute terror - because you soon realise that you can do nothing to stop them if they persist.
Very fortunately, after I'd gone about 50 metres, they gave up and went back to their nest. It's a real lesson in how defenceless we are from tiny creatures en masse.
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1 hour ago, Bobobirdiebuddy said:How about a map..
My thoughts entirely. In fact, hardly ever do Thai news reports on rail lines show maps, despite that being extremely useful and informative.
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1 hour ago, vicbkk said:no need, it does'nt go anywhere éxcept from Icon Siam to Krung Thonburi BTS
So what? A map would help everybody.
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And who pressured the commander? And who pressured that person? Continue until you get to the top.
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It looks great now! Well, the beach does anyway, like when I was last there in 1996.
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There are so many derailments in Thailand. Why is that?
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How totally unoriginal! And how useless with no foreign tourists! TAT has another stroke of genius!
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21 hours ago, Pib said:
Yea...Thailand needs to stick with Thai fattening unhealthy rubbish.
Traditional Thai food is very largely healthy and unfattening. That is why Thai people were almost all slim until the last dozen years or so, when Western junk food and snacks began to be widely consumed.
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On 7/9/2020 at 9:05 AM, ezzra said:
I think that CP will be more suited as they own vast networks of the chicken business already, either way, KFC is a good product in moderation of course...
You obviously have no concern for animal welfare. KFC commits animal cruelty on a gigantic scale worldwide.
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Is the FA Cup final on Thai TV?
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23.15 according to the Guardian.