Thread: Government to cull tuk-tuks

Transport authorities will curb the number of tuk-tuks on the roads as a recent increase is affecting quality controls on the iconic three-wheel passenger vehicles.

Tuk-tuks need "birth control," said Land Transport Department director-general, Sanit Phromsathit, after learning their numbers in Bangkok have risen to more than 9,000.

Mr Sanit said the department considered this as excessive, and made it hard to supervise their operations.....

Government to cull tuk-tuks | Bangkok Post: news

Maybe the Grand Palace has closed after all

Maybe the learned Thai gentleman has shares in a taxi company?

Must be me i thought they just issued another X Tuk-Tuk licences?

That was so 2015....

500 more tuk-tuk taxis to ply Bangkok streets next year
500 more tuk-tuk taxis to ply Bangkok streets next year - Thai PBS English News

That's one tuk-tuk per 944 people living in Bangkok....2015.

There are 23,000 taxis on the road there, one per 370 people, aprox, with another 20, 000 taxis idle.

Motocy taxis? Don't even bother counting, heaps! 50,000 < 80,000, maybe? So many that 20,000 taxis lying idle just can't compete.

Buses, private cars and trucks all pumping ot noxious fumes, so that only the lower figures are boasted of in BKK AQI readings, daily.

If the truth be told, Bangkok AQI hits 300 >550 ppm most days a week in the CBD.

Would have thought tuk tuks numbers were self regulating, Ubon had tuk tuks everywhere, then metered taxis came, cheaper, faster with aircon.
No money for the tuk tuk drivers, fewer tuk tuks.

Don't know how much a tuk tuk license costs, but if you are going to be parked up all day, making nothing, why buy one.

Supply and demand, or is the government just following the west, regulate and control everything.

So this only affects new registrations in Bangkok? The rest of Thailand can ignore it.

So the second hand market must be a buyers market.

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Would have thought tuk tuks numbers were self regulating, Ubon had tuk tuks everywhere, then metered taxis came, cheaper, faster with aircon.
No money for the tuk tuk drivers, fewer tuk tuks.

Don't know how much a tuk tuk license costs, but if you are going to be parked up all day, making nothing, why buy one.

Supply and demand, or is the government just following the west, regulate and control everything.

Don't get me started on Tuk tuks here in Udon. They are slow and of the older variety that only impede traffic and are a huge pain in the ass. I would like them all to disappear here and maybe they will since I am now seeing many more taxis in Udon.

I hate to count the amount of near misses when cars and motorbikes pass these slow pieces of shit on our narrow streets when they refuse to give way.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Don't get me started on Tuk tuks here in Udon. They are slow and of the older variety that only impede traffic and are a huge pain in the ass. I would like them all to disappear here and maybe they will since I am now seeing many more taxis in Udon.

I hate to count the amount of near misses when cars and motorbikes pass these slow pieces of shit on our narrow streets when they refuse to give way.

We drive in to Ubon, before taxis we drove everywhere, now we park up in the hotel and catch cabs, no parking problems, can drink and it's cheap, 50 Baht will get you 1/2 way across town.
Tuk tuks are and adventure activity, life threatening adrenaline rides.

Originally Posted by wasabi

So the second hand market must be a buyers market.

I thought a good second hand Tuk Tuk would be a great go getter as long as it was for short runs

Originally Posted by ENT

If the truth be told, Bangkok AQI hits 300 >550 ppm most days a week in the CBD.

on what basis, out of curiosity?

Just read the Bkk AQI daily reports.
On average, once or twice a week day, the Bangkok PM10 levels go OTT, around 8 am and 6 pm, allways at the one location in the city centre, may be at the UN embassy, while measuring stations all around that one show much lower levels.