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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is pushed on a wheel-chair while leaving Siriraj hospital to the Grand Palace for a ceremony celebrating his 84th birthday in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)
Bangkok - Bangkok is notorious for a number of things - traffic being one of them - but a request by King Bhumibol Adulyadej is designed to alleviate at least the royal congestion.
Traffic is now forced to stop on both sides of roads and highways during police-escorted royal motorcades, and pedestrian bridges are closed, leading to traffic jams, particularly in the capital.
But the revered monarch last year instructed his office to work with state authorities to find ways to ease the congestion, resulting in a manual for traffic police that is to be published this month, the Bangkok Post reported Tuesday.
Under the new rules, vehicles travelling in the opposite direction of royal motorcades would be allowed to proceed, and the period that traffic is stopped prior to the motorcades' arrival would be shortened.
People will be allowed to use pedestrian bridges up until the time the motorcades actually arrive.
Bhumibol, 84, has rarely used motorcades in Bangkok since he was hospitalized in September 2009. - Sapa-dpa
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