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line still slices through traffic at street level, with barriers that may or may not work and traffic lights that have no idea a train is coming.
line still slices through traffic at street level, with barriers that may or may not work and traffic lights that have no idea a train is coming.
The collision at Makkasan was not really an accident. An accident is something nobody saw coming. This one had been predicted, in print, by Thai journalists and rail experts, for years. The only unknown was the date.
Unless the prime minister, the SRT, BMTA, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Ministry of Transport stop passing the parcel and start doing what Tokyo began half a century ago, the question is not whether this happens again. The question is where, and to whom.
Eight families have already paid the price for that delay. They deserve to be the last.
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The story Train-bus collision Bangkok’s Makkasan was not an accident. It was a system designed to fail as seen on Thaiger News.
← Back to newsThe collision at Makkasan was not really an accident. An accident is something nobody saw coming. This one had been predicted, in print, by Thai journalists and rail experts, for years. The only unknown was the date.
Unless the prime minister, the SRT, BMTA, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Ministry of Transport stop passing the parcel and start doing what Tokyo began half a century ago, the question is not whether this happens again. The question is where, and to whom.
Eight families have already paid the price for that delay. They deserve to be the last.
https://thethaiger.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_20260516_223549-552x820.jpg
The story Train-bus collision Bangkok’s Makkasan was not an accident. It was a system designed to fail as seen on Thaiger News.