By Thai Newsroom Reporters
MOST BANGKOKIANS WOULD prefer all public buses plying the capital city use the old numbers which they have already remembered and find the new ones quite confusing, says the latest NIDA Poll.
According to the NIDA Poll recently conducted among a total of 708 Bangkokians who regularly commute on city buses, 64% of the respondents say they would prefer the old numerals which have been earlier used for many years rather than today’s numerals which they have found unfamiliar and confusing.
That compared to 20% of the respondents who say they would prefer today’s numerals without a hyphen between the first two digits and 8% who give their consent to the new numerals with a hyphen between the first two digits.
Meanwhile, the NIDA Poll has found 50% of the respondents say most bus drivers have had good discipline behind the wheel whilst 45% view their discipline as poor.
All Bangkok buses, either air-conditioned or not, are either run by the state-owned Bangkok Mass Transit Authority or private firms whose fleets are officially called joint service buses.
The Land Transport Department has earlier divided all city bus fleets into four zones and used new numbers whose first digit signifies a respective zone in clockwise fashion.
Buses based at terminals in Bangkok’s inner part are given 1 as the first digit, those leaving terminals on the city’s northern and northeastern outskirts given 2, those on the eastern and southern outskirts given 3 and those on the Thonburi side of the city given 4.
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City buses with new numbers and old numbers in brackets. Top photo: Naewna, Front Page photo taken a netizen who criticised changing bus numbers and shared by Naewna
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