Traffic tops governor's to-do list

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Poll: Traffic is Job 1 for governor

Published: 16 Feb 2013 at 15.54
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Solving Bangkok's worsening traffic problem must be the priority of the capital's next governor, an Abac Poll survey has found.

Pollsters at Assumption University interviewed 3,631 eligible voters between Feb 8 and 15 about what they wanted from the March 3 gubernatorial election.

Asked what they would propose to city residents if they were running for election, 22.5% of the respondents said they would solve traffic jams, while 12.5% of them said they would solve the high cost of living.

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jwatch
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Discussion 12 : 17 Feb 2013 at 18.1812
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How about starting with just simple enforcement of traffic rules
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Discussion 11 : 16 Feb 2013 at 21.4011
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The 3,631 eligible voters involved in this pollster is no significant to the total voters in Bangkok alone. putting the right person in the position as governor can be the answers to all these concern in the right person for me is the one that is tested, and with political will not those new aspiring politician who have no idea about these problems...
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Discussion 10 : 16 Feb 2013 at 21.3710
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Look at all the traffic. People are going somewhere for a reason. Look at the population now compared to 20 years ago. More people can afford vehicles now compared to 20 years ago. Give 1/3 of the people a reason to go somewhere else besides the city and problem solved. Time to start moving businesses out of the city.
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Discussion 9 : 16 Feb 2013 at 19.479
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This seems like an afterthought after at least one million new cars enter Bangkok's roadways as a result of the Govt's first car buyers scheme. Talking about a cat chasing its own tail!
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Discussion 8 : 16 Feb 2013 at 19.198
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"the government's wildly successful tax-rebate program for first-car buyers" What is the definition of wildly successful here? Let's see? Mass traffic jams. A high percentage of the buyers that cannot afford their payments and will be financially bailed out by the Thai gov't (i.e. taxpayers). So who exactly is this program successful for? Seems to me this program is a complete failure causing traffic hardship and a financial hardship for the government. I do not define that as success in any definition of the word
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Discussion 7 : 16 Feb 2013 at 18.047
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What people men by dos something about traffic is make it easier for them to drive their own car which is of course impossible .There is only so much room on the road .Most roads have either dead ends or u turns making more traffic and to top it off the the traffic police are still changing the traffic lights .Public transport is the answer .Preferably subways because they dont take up space .
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Discussion 6 : 16 Feb 2013 at 18.026
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Reasonable expectation ?

Well, voter are as good as a votee ( strange wording, but you get the idea !) and vice versa.

May be they forget these followings ;

1. Who burnt Bangkok ?
2. Who create worsening traffic ever ?
3. Who bullied citizen, even while still in uniform ?

I will " Just Say No " to the above, ain't ya !

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Discussion 5 : 16 Feb 2013 at 17.355
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If traffic is no 1 priority and you have a government buying votes with cheep cars the governor has not got a snow ball in hell chance to solve the traffic problem.Left not bothered what the right is doing or no caring.
The car scheme served two purposes,
Firstly is appeased the lord and masters the car industry by increasing sales and compensating them for the loss of income caused by the unnecessary floods.
second it bought the ruling party votes to help there choice of governor and ultimately themselves votes as MPs.
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Discussion 4 : 16 Feb 2013 at 17.124
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The traffic problem is relatively simple to solve.
Either ban all private cars completely, or follow the lead of London and introduce a tariff system that inevitably would exclude all but the rich. The revenue could ideally fund more buses.
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Discussion 3 : 16 Feb 2013 at 16.553
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So if solving the traffic problem is the thing most voters want the most, why do most (the polls say) want to vote for the candidate from the party that is putting more cars on the roads? Why do they want to vote for a police general, considering what most people think of the Thai police? If the polls are to be believed, voters here seem awfully stupid.
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