Here is a letter to the editor from the Bangkok with which I heartily agree. Certainly whoever came up with this lame brain idea knows nothing about Thailand. Here is that letter...
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Bangkok's weather not ideal for cycling see from the Post that public money is to be spent on a further survey to install bicycle lanes along Bangkok streets and that bicycle lanes will be included in all new roads to be built in the city.
I can only wonder if those authorizing this expenditure have ever been on a bicycle, let alone in Bangkok traffic.
The Thai climate is entirely unsuitable for anything other than recreational cycling outside the city.
If one were to try to cycle to work, facilities for a shower and a complete change of clothing would be essential before starting work.
There are no proper facilities to park an expensive bicycle at the workplace without risk of theft, and helmets and sodden clothing must also be properly stored before returning home.
If it rains (as it is while I'm writing), a raincoat is of no use in this climate as one becomes soaked with sweat inside it.
Driving a substantial car on Bangkok streets frightens me. I would feel safer in a tank, but a bicycle is equivalent to charging enemy machine-guns armed with a pea-shooter.
Cycle lanes will presumably take away space at present available to the pedestrian _ when he can wend his way around potholes, election posters, telephone booths and a myriad sprawling vendors.
The only good thing about bicycle lanes is that the phalanx of motorcyclists who charge up and down the sidewalk to short-circuit the traffic on the road, will use them in preference to their present practice.
Just how much taxpayers' money is to be wasted on this project ?
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I can only wonder if those authorizing this expenditure have ever been on a bicycle, let alone in Bangkok traffic.
The Thai climate is entirely unsuitable for anything other than recreational cycling outside the city.
If one were to try to cycle to work, facilities for a shower and a complete change of clothing would be essential before starting work.
There are no proper facilities to park an expensive bicycle at the workplace without risk of theft, and helmets and sodden clothing must also be properly stored before returning home.
If it rains (as it is while I'm writing), a raincoat is of no use in this climate as one becomes soaked with sweat inside it.
Driving a substantial car on Bangkok streets frightens me. I would feel safer in a tank, but a bicycle is equivalent to charging enemy machine-guns armed with a pea-shooter.
Cycle lanes will presumably take away space at present available to the pedestrian _ when he can wend his way around potholes, election posters, telephone booths and a myriad sprawling vendors.
The only good thing about bicycle lanes is that the phalanx of motorcyclists who charge up and down the sidewalk to short-circuit the traffic on the road, will use them in preference to their present practice.
Just how much taxpayers' money is to be wasted on this project ?
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The only thing I can add to this is a big A-MEN!
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