Public transport ignored

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Published: 23 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Is public transport on the agenda of any of the Bangkok governor candidates?

We are now entering a pre-election period for the race to become Bangkok's master.

In one corner of the ring, the ex-governor with his shady track record - just think about his Great Floods Hesitation or his Futsal stadium fiasco. In the other corner, the Pheu Thai-sponsored candidate who denies shoplifting a radio while he was abroad. And then there's all the independent and third-party candidates who may or may not make the battle very lively.

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Renaissance
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Discussion 5 : 23 Jan 2013 at 17.385
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Khun Burin, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the strike, the cost of living has gone up so much over the last year. Far more than 7.5%. A 4% increase is too little for sure. Do you know how much more even vegetables cost than a year ago?
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Discussion 4 : 23 Jan 2013 at 10.194
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I can only conclude that politicians are completely out of touch with traffic in Thailand not only Bangkok .Is it because they get police escort or they have drivers .Then to subsidize even more cars to add to the pollution .Do they worry about their stocks in PTT ? Bangkok should have had a full subway a decade ago .Now they talk about a few train lines .What about the rest of the system and the country ?
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Discussion 3 : 23 Jan 2013 at 08.423
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Traffic problems are just one of a score of serious problems affecting Bangkok. What surprises me (as much as anuthing else) is how property values are sky-high, in a city which is sinking, noisy, gridlocked, and (according to farang friends who visited recently) smelly.
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Discussion 2 : 23 Jan 2013 at 08.352
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An extremely partisan group (UDD), with a proven record of causing mayhem, allowed to 'monitor' an election where they have a deep vested interest. This could only in present-day Thailand where the gov't is unabashedly fixated on winning at all costs.
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Discussion 1 : 23 Jan 2013 at 06.561
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Vint, Certainly it would be wrong for the Red Shirts to intimidate voters. Hopefully this won't happen. However, it is within their rights to monitor the election process. And they have good reason to. Their party won national elections in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2011 and all, except the last, were meddled with, subverted and overthrown - once with help from the Election Commission.
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