BANGKOK, Dec 16 – Land Transport Department is preparing road safety measures for commuters to welcome the coming Christmas and New Year holidays.
The department’s director-general Somchai Siriwattanachok said many people are expected to travel during the festivities despite only a few days off as public holidays.
He said his department is cooperating with the Vocational Education Commission Office, private sector, and other automobile companies, opening up over 2,000 checkpoints for vehicle capacity check-ups for the general public before their travel.
According to Somchai, passengers opt for more van services as a choice of travel, therefore public vans are restricted to carry no more than 15 passengers each at speeds of no more than 90km/hour for safety reasons.
Meanwhile, Transport Company President Wuttichart Kalayanamitr said at least one million passengers are forecast to use services of the company’s buses, or about 250,000 passengers/day, over the four-day New Year holiday period from Dec 29-Jan 1.
Transport Company has ordered another 50 buses to serve during this period, thus increasing the number of rounds of bus services during the New Year holiday to 7,000/day from the usual 5,000
