Pattaya showcases baht bus replacement

[Pattaya One]

We were recently privileged to witness the first test run of City hall’s new mass transport vehicle, which combines elements of a baht bus and a truck, to be known as a " Truss”, which may well be what most people using it will end up wearing.

Allowing many more seats than the stuffy baht bus, and refreshingly open to the elements, this new, more durable road vehicle will shortly be offering metered rides (with the meter turned off, of course, as this is Pattaya) to clueless map-clutching Russians and drunken farang staggering home from Walking Street late at night.

To questions about safety, an official replied that no baht bus and no road in Pattaya is safe anyway, so why worry about the risk of injury by falling from the unsecured chairs.

Asked about the 100 billion baht cost of introducing this new system, a transport expert from the company pioneering this venture winked and asked our reporter for help in pushing a large wheelbarrow full of money to his bank.

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