🗓️ September 22, 2026
📍 Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok Car Free 2026: More Ways to Get Around 🚶‍♀️🚲🚆

Bangkok is asking residents to try leaving the car at home as part of Bangkok Car Free 2026, with this year’s theme: “Let’s Shift Modes.”

The idea isn’t to ban cars or force people to stop driving. Instead, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) wants to make it easier, safer and more convenient to choose other ways of getting around.

🚆🚲🚶‍♂️ One City, More Ways to Move

BMA officials, including Governor Chadchart Sittipunt, joined the campaign by commuting without private cars. They walked, cycled, took boats and used public transport to reach City Hall.

Four foreign embassies also joined the campaign, encouraging their staff to use public transportation instead of private cars.

The bigger goal is to create a Bangkok where people can walk, cycle, connect between transport systems and easily access public transit.

🌳 Better Walking and Cycling Routes

Several projects are helping make that possible:

Lumphini–Benjakitti link: A safer connection for walkers, runners and cyclists between the two parks. It has ramps, lifts, lighting and CCTV, and is free to use from 6am–6pm.

Rajavithi Skywalk: A covered walkway connecting BTS Victory Monument with several major hospitals, including Rajavithi and Ramathibodi. It is designed to make walking easier for patients, older people and everyone else.

South Sathon covered walkway: A 1.6 km sheltered route connecting MRT Lumphini with the Chong Nonsi Skywalk, helping pedestrians escape Bangkok’s heat and rain.

🚤 Electric Boats Join the Mix

Bangkok is also connecting its streets with its canals.

Electric boats operate on several routes, including the Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem service between Hua Lamphong and Thewarat Market.

Weekday boats run every 20 minutes during morning and evening commuting hours, while weekend and holiday services run hourly. Boat locations can also be checked through ViaBus.

🚲 More Bike-Sharing

The BMA is aiming for 1 million bike-sharing trips and plans to add or relocate bike stations where people actually need them.

The goal is simple: make bikes useful for those short gaps between home, school, work and public transport.

🌏 What’s the Bigger Idea?

“Let’s Shift Modes” is really about giving Bangkok more choices.

Instead of thinking “car vs. no car”, the BMA wants residents to have a mix of trains, buses, boats, bikes and walking routes that work together.