Gen Prawit sets Khlong Saen Saep renovation deadline for year’s end

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has urged related agencies to accelerate the renovation of Khlong Saen Saep, to improve the canal’s scenery and safety for water transport, with the safety of boat passengers the top priority.

 

The subcommittee on the management, development and conservation of Khlong Saen Saep, chaired by DPM Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, has assigned the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to create an urgent development plan in which development works are to be performed within this year.

 

The plan must place the highest priority on the safety of passengers using express boat services along the canal, improve the infrastructure and landscape along the canal and the cleanliness and orderliness of areas by the canal.

 

The plan will also include the construction of 8 new piers, the procurement of 12 electric passenger boats and the operational management of these boats.

 

City hall will be working with the Pollution Control Department, the Wastewater Management Authority and other related agencies to enforce the water pollution control law and perform 3 construction projects of wastewater collection systems, a large scale community wastewater management project, a flow capacity increase project for Khlong Saen Saep and a drainage tunnel construction.

 

Three more projects have been planed to take place over the next 5 years, namely a wastewater collection system construction, serving areas around Khlong Lat Tanot, the construction of a wastewater treatment facility in Min Buri district and the construction of a wastewater management system in Khlong Toei district.

 

Gen Prawit urged related agencies to ensure all the urgent projects will be completed within the timeframe.

 

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2 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Gen Prawit sets Khlong Saen Saep renovation deadline for year’s end

 

No time to waste then with chief watch keeper on the case ..

1 minute ago, Justgrazing said:

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Gen Prawit sets Khlong Saen Saep renovation deadline for year’s end

No time to waste then with chief watch keeper on the case ..

Will that include compulsory life jackets for all passengers, or only if someone's watching?

BTW anyone still using a film camera can develop it for free in that klong

About 2 or 3 nights a week I take my evening walk along that canal between Sukhumvit 21 and soi 1, including along the RR tracks between soi 1 and the freeway exit. There are shantytown style houses all along that route and the tracks, and especially along the sub-klong between soi one and the tracks. The biggest challenge will be to get people to stop throwing their garbage into the water. And near the sub-klong there are various common toilets, and I don't even want to know where that effluent goes. And people fish in that water!

passenger safety and the khlong boats are sort of mutually exclusive... I'd guess Prawit never saw one, let alone ever traveled on one

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Gen Prawit sets Khlong Saen Saep renovation deadline for year’s end

Once the renovation is complete he will then frolic in the khlong waters to prove it's wholesomeness, using one of the yellow rubber duckies confiscated from the Student protests.

19 hours ago, tingtongfarang said:

BTW anyone still using a film camera can develop it for free in that klong

The water is that strong huh?

On 1/29/2021 at 6:42 PM, snoop1130 said:

Gen Prawit sets Khlong Saen Saep renovation deadline for year’s end

Oh hes awake again is he??????

On 1/29/2021 at 5:48 AM, bluesofa said:

Will that include compulsory life jackets for all passengers, or only if someone's watching?

 

Given the choice between a minuscule chance of drowning, or the high probability of heat stroke from wearing a stinky, sweaty old life jacket in the tropical heat, I sure hope they're optional.