5. Overlooked Problems of Long-Tailed Boats
To promote and encourage the higher
usage of this long-tailed boat service, several
overlooked problems must be addressed and
searched for proper remedies. The following
issues are highly recommended to be addressed:
5.1 Polluted Water
Polluted water is one of the main causes of
the declining trend of demand of the long-tailed
boats. While these passengers are commuting
using these long-tailed boat services, they have
to face with unpleasant odors resulted from the
polluted water along the canals. Moreover,
sometime the polluted water would splash to
the commuters while sitting inside the boat.
Although, long-tailed boats normally use plastic
shades to protect this splashing problem as
shown in Figure 16, in most cases it proves
to be not enough to protect or convince the
commuters. When considering the water quality
among all canals in Bangkok, the statistics
collected by the Department of Drainage and
Sewerage [11] stated that the average level of