Move Forward’s natural area code is approved by the council pending legal review.
PUBLISHED: 5 October 2023 at 20:13
In order to better protect the environment and person’s health, Bangkok City Council has approved a document area code that calls for the replacement of all fossil fuel-powered public buses with electrical vehicles within seven years.
The document restriction was approved by a vote of 30 in favor with no objections at the second and third observations on Wednesday. It was sponsored by Move Forward Party city council members and approved at its first studying in April.
The Bang Sue district’s Move Forward council, Pattaraporn Kengrungruanchai, urged members to complete the law, which would effectively reduce fine-dust pollution in the money and encourage fresh atmosphere for more than 10 million city dwellers.
She advised Bangkok to seize the chance to lead the change and replace the use of fossil energy by using cleaner power in public transportation cars.
However, Chadchat Sittipunt, the governor of Bangkok, announced that the Code would be reviewed by the Council of State on behalf of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration( BMA ).
He advised the government’s legal counsel to be consulted because the legal affairs department of the BMA was unsure whether City Hall had the authority to enforce the code.
City Hall is prepared to change its own trucks, according to deputy governor of Bangkok Jakkapan Phiewngam, but constitutional issues still need to be resolved. The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority ( BMTA ), which is a division of the Transport Ministry, is in charge of overseeing the buses.
In order to phase out its fleet of fossil fuel buses over the course of three years, the BMTA last season proposed a plan to acquire 3, 200 energy buses.
The Thai Smile Bus ( TSB ) company operates the first 40 electric public buses in the capital, which started running on the new line 2 – 38 that took the place of bus route 8.