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**ireleda** · 07-06-2008, 06:00 PM

seriously thats not cool.
what they should do is make lanes that r exclusively for emergency vehicles and fine anyone who goes into them. if ppl r gonna ignore the emergency vehicles altogether and not care if there is an emergency, i think that building dedicated emergency lanes is the way to go.

It seems from what you say that you have never been to Thailand.
There is also lane dividers between traffic lanes going in different directions,[divided hiways] which are not observed, they drive either way on either side of the dividers, cut thru safety zones right in front of police boxes and in general just do anything they want.
Pay no attn. to solid lane markings and pass when ever they want to, There is some traffic law enforcement on the tollways but none on the open hiways, if you are driving on a roadway there is traffic coming at you from the traffic lane on your right and also on the shoulder of the road, both motorbikes and cars/pickups, even trucks.

so without any form of traffic law enforcement you actually have no laws.

No one has ever taught the Thai people to drive, so you can not really blame them for their "water buffalo mentality" when in a motor vehicle.

07-06-2008, 06:00 PM	#13
ireleda Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 584 Senior Member	seriously thats not cool. what they should do is make lanes that r exclusively for emergency vehicles and fine anyone who goes into them. if ppl r gonna ignore the emergency vehicles altogether and not care if there is an emergency, i think that building dedicated emergency lanes is the way to go. It seems from what you say that you have never been to Thailand. There is also lane dividers between traffic lanes going in different directions,[divided hiways] which are not observed, they drive either way on either side of the dividers, cut thru safety zones right in front of police boxes and in general just do anything they want. Pay no attn. to solid lane markings and pass when ever they want to, There is some traffic law enforcement on the tollways but none on the open hiways, if you are driving on a roadway there is traffic coming at you from the traffic lane on your right and also on the shoulder of the road, both motorbikes and cars/pickups, even trucks. so without any form of traffic law enforcement you actually have no laws. No one has ever taught the Thai people to drive, so you can not really blame them for their "water buffalo mentality" when in a motor vehicle.
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