Originally Posted by
transpac
Got here a day or two after the article was posted
There have been/will be quite a few practice sessions for the "Bike for Dad" event (Dec. 11, may be declared a holiday) so that has been messing things up quite a bit with road closures, people on public tranpo. with bikes, practice viewers, etc.
Next week Dec 7, 10 and (possibly) 11 are holidays so traffic should be down (except for 11th) but public transpo. is swamped already as we enter high season, so expect challenges there.
Too late. Challenges have already arrived for those days. There are planned road closures on 7, 10, 16 for a funeral procession and rehearsals (Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara). Roads closed starting 8:00 for most of the day. The procession route starts on Phra Sumen Road at Sip Sam Hang intersection, and runs to Mahakan Fortress intersection, turns left to Lan Luang Road, right to Krung Kasem Road, and right to Luang Road before Wat Debsirindrawas.
Originally Posted by
DirtyDan
This is a hidden fact of Bangkok life: people pay to keep their intersections moving. Ever wonder why a light is 2 minutes one day and 7 minutes the next at the exact same time of day? This wreaks havoc on all the other sois and thanons into feed into that intersection and the waves of traffic that begin spiralling outward behind them...
A couple of years ago I had been at Bumrungrad and walked out to Soi 3 to grab a taxi. Traffic was 100% stopped. Couldn't see the sense in sitting in a taxi going nowhere watching the meter tick. So I decided to just walk toward Sukhumvit. I could see the red light at Suk and Soi 3. I figured when I see the light turn green I would grab a cab. Walked all the way to Sukhumvit and the light never turned green once. A good 10 minutes if not more. I'm sure traffic on Soi 3 was backed up well beyond Petchaburi. Not sure how this was supposed to help traffic.