Songkran 2021

[parrot]

Ok, so it's 2022. Time to stock up on things before most shops close up for a few days.
This sign at World Gas......closed for 3 days next week (373 for a tank)

[stattointhailand]

Hopefully the accident and death figures will again be low this year due to the dumb a*ses not being allowed to throw buckets of water at windscreens and motorbikes

[Barney]

On a positive note the locals are trying, if you have noticed the groups dressed in purple t-shirts set up at various intersections and sending out messages by signs and speaker to not get drunk and drive during songkran.
Gotta keep a half glass full attitude that one day it may sink in, not all locals are pis.heads. Songkran has significance on their calendar.


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[tamada]

On a positive note the locals are trying, if you have noticed the groups dressed in purple t-shirts set up at various intersections and sending out messages by signs and speaker to not get drunk and drive during songkran.
Gotta keep a half glass full attitude that one day it may sink in, not all locals are pis.heads. Songkran has significance on their calendar.


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I have a glass half full in the cup holder even when it's not Songkran.

[mak]

I hear M6 is open over the holidays starting yesterday for free.

[pepesgrill]

i used to have some grasp of the academic
calendar , mar-apr being summer but i guess any
chance to get kids back on track. starts in may?

[mak]

Motorway 6 is open for free.

[AlexO]

i used to have some grasp of the academic
calendar , mar-apr being summer but i guess any
chance to get kids back on track. starts in may?

Government has confirmed academic year starts 17th May. That's the plan 'so far'.

[parrot]

i used to have some grasp of the academic
calendar , mar-apr being summer but i guess any
chance to get kids back on track. starts in may?

Government has confirmed academic year starts 17th May. That's the plan 'so far'.

Don Bosco DB Smart program (at least for M.3) starts 18 April.

[mak]

Which restaurants/bars are open during Songkran?
I believe the Gallery is closed. Little Italian Restaurant is open.

[pepesgrill]

and so it begins .. . .. someone was telling me the
municipality had instructed things to be " subdued

[mak]

Motorway 6 will be open to motorists for two periods - before Songkran from April 11 to 14 and after Songkran from April 15 to 18, from 6am to midnight.

[tamada]

Motorway 6 will be open to motorists for two periods - before Songkran from April 11 to 14 and after Songkran from April 15 to 18, from 6am to midnight.

That's a 55 km bypass. I wonder what the bottlenecks are like at each end?

[deankham]

Where does the M6 go from / to. Heard it mentioned several times now. Is it newly opened?

[tamada]

Where does the M6 go from / to. Heard it mentioned several times now. Is it newly opened?

Including the elevated bit above Highway 2, it's currently a ~145 km bypass from Saraburi to Korat. It's the red track in the appended.

[stattointhailand]

They could have called it something else ......M6 just brings back clusterf*ck nightmares whenever its mentioned

[tamada]

They could have called it something else ......M6 just brings back clusterf*ck nightmares whenever its mentioned

Piss and moan... the upside is we won't be around to lament Thailand's M25 at this rate.

[stattointhailand]

Not done M25 for twenty odd years , but Route 9 must be getting close Bang Par In to Samut Sakhon

[mak]

Bang Pa-In to Korat.
Not officially open yet. Just open for Songkran.

[stattointhailand]

And then someone can get a gong when it officially opens for reducing the number of deaths/accidents on the road from the temporary/trial opening period figures