Bangkok wants canal colorized, homeowners balk

[snoop1130]

Bangkok wants canal colorized, homeowners balk

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Homes along the Khlong Ong Ang in Bangkok's Samphanthawong District.

 

BANGKOK — Another day and another City Hall project, this one to beautify the capital, is met with controversy.

 

Residents along the banks of Khlong Ong Ang complain they were forced to repaint their homes and pay 35,000 baht for a metropolitan administration campaign to make the area more colorful for the Loy Krathong festival. The local district chief on Monday said no such demands were made but that the authorities would like homeowners to “cooperate” with the effort.

 

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[thedemon]

Can I paint mine in PT red?

[mok199]

good idea...Thailand needs some color,everything is white and grey..

[Cadbury]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Residents along the banks of Khlong Ong Ang complain they were forced to repaint their homes and pay 35,000 baht for a metropolitan administration campaign to make the area more colorful

This is the sort of campaign where residents cough up 35,000 baht for some raggedy ass painter to repaint their houses who is then paid about 10,000 baht for his efforts while the other 25,000 goes under the table to those in high office. Sounds normal routine.

[Jeremy50]

1 hour ago, mok199 said:

good idea...Thailand needs some color,everything is white and grey..

Yep, the colour of dirty concrete. Probably the ugliest buildings/towns in the world. Who was it who said 'The measure of a culture's health is in the beauty, of it's architecture'? John Ruskin, I think.

[overherebc]

Just don't paint them black or Imm' will be banging on the door.

Joke, honest, just a joke.

[animalmagic]

11 hours ago, mok199 said:

good idea...Thailand needs some color,everything is white and grey..

And that's just the farangs who live here!

[AhFarangJa]

City Hall said it would build pedestrian paths along the canal, plant more trees, improve the sewage system, repair bridges and install more security cameras.

Why now, they haven't bothered for the last quarter century. 

[tallfarang]

I like it, the orange really pops when set against the shit brown water.

[AhFarangJa]

When I read the headline I thought they were going to dye the water blue.....????

[Media1]

21 hours ago, mok199 said:

good idea...Thailand needs some color,everything is white and grey..

They should not need to pay anything. This country is wealthy tourist destination and the public are duped.

[Media1]

20 hours ago, Cadbury said:

This is the sort of campaign where residents cough up 35,000 baht for some raggedy ass painter to repaint their houses who is then paid about 10,000 baht for his efforts while the other 25,000 goes under the table to those in high office. Sounds normal routine.

Yes corruption and filth in one can

[AhFarangJa]

28 minutes ago, Kim J said:

Providing nose pegs to stop the smell of the rancid water might also feature in their considerations?

This may be another method......