Glomming onto the groundbreaking cynicism first brought to you by this very website, the Bangkok Post is now looking a gift horse in the mouth and speculating that, perhaps, adding 1.2 million cars to one of the world’s most congested traffic grids might not be such a good idea.
In this article, the Post casts some aspersions on the government’s “first-car” tax rebate program, pointing out that the added cars could increase gridlock and exhaust government coffers.
According to the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, traffic in BKK is only going to get worse thanks to the policy, and, as reported by the Post, the Kingdom’s new motorists have the government on the hook for some THB90 billion.
Other than that, however, it’s clear skies ahead. Except for the rampant pollution, which will ensure that there are almost certainly no clear skies anywhere.
