Dusit Zoo relocation plan in progress

 

BANGKOK, 18th December 2017 (NNT) – Working committees have been set up to examine a construction site for Dusit Zoo, which will be relocated out of Bangkok to Pathum Thani province. 
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The Director of the Zoological Park Organization, Benjaphon Nakprasert, said two working committees are looking into the relocation and the construction of Dusit Zoo. Mr. Benjaphon said the committees will come up with plans on the suitable construction site, model and time frame of relocation. The Zoological Park Organization is planning to relocate Dusit Zoo to a 300-rai area in Khlong 6, Thanyaburi district of Pathum Thani. 

The two committees will submit their progress reports to the next Zoological Park Organization's meeting on January 9th, 2018. 

He stresses that Dusit Zoo will still open to the general public until the relocation project is completed.

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It will cost a fortune and take years to complete

The site it's moving to is probably part of this 700 Rai royal-owned location 14.046316, 100.726196 next to the National Science Museum and Rajamangala University of Technology. 

 

Although well out of town it's only about 6km from Route 9 but since you'll likely go past Safari World on the way it wouldn't surprise me if many parents take their youngsters there instead. The beauty of the current site is that it's readily accessible to those in the city.

 

Also the access roads are narrow and already busy, could be a traffic nightmare.

 

The new site is also 20km from us, so I need not worry about increased traffic