The police are having cameras installed at traffic lights to record the license plates (and maybe driver photos) of people running red lights.

At T intersections, it is common, even customary, for traffic in the far left lane going straight to just disregard the red light, and sometimes even the two left lanes. This is illegal.

(Once, when I followed the herd, we were all met by smiling policemen who had been hiding downstream a ways since just before the light turned red, who offered either a ticket or else pay them on the spot. All these cars pulled over caused a bit of a traffic jam.)

There was a notice of this in The Nation today.

Whether this will break the bad Thai habit of running red lights has yet to be seen.

What would be even more useful, and what I've been hoping for over 15 years, is for the police to address the issue of cars blocking other lanes by stopping in traffic a yellow zone marking an entrance/exit for a building or soi, thereby blocking all traffic in and out of the soi or building. (Similar to zebra crossings.) If traffic is stopped, then they should stop before the entrance/exit, not block it.

The same applies to entering an intersection even though the traffic is jammed there already so they cannot go anywhere, but only block the cross traffic when their light turns green. In some countries, if you are blocking an intersection, then the police give you a choice: Either turn, or get a ticket. You should never have entered the intersection if you couldn't have cleared it.

But "This Is Thailand" ... and the human nature of the masses.