While taxi color in other countries signify nothing in particular, Bangkoks taxis are actually color coded.
The single-color are company taxis, personal taxis in cooperation or alliance and rental company taxis.
The bi-colored taxis are in 3 kinds including yellow-green, red-blue and yellow-orange.
The yellow-green are the personal private taxi.
The red-blue are the rental taxi.
The yellow-orange are the company taxi.
The yellow-orange color Euro II buses are also air-conditioned and relatively new.
Purple or red colored are micro-buses that are privately owned and offers an alternative bus service to the population.
The BMTA bus map comes very handy if one plans to tour the city by bus.
The Thais have different colors for each day of the week.
These colors are considered lucky and celebrated as birthday colors.
Even politics in Thailand is color oriented.
That changed when yellow became associated with the Peoples Alliance for Democracy a group against the present Thai government.
Those who dont want to make a political statement wear pink these days.
People started adopting the color after the King was seen wearing a pink blazer in a public appearance.
Apparently, an astrologer had suggested him to wear pink.
Sources:Wikipedia/Bangkok Family Vacations/BMTA/Into Asia/Noupe/Time
