Thai PM hails new Benjakitti Park as something for Thais to be proud of and foreign tourists to enjoy

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Thailand's prime minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha chaired the latest meeting to discuss the new Benjakitti Park in Bangkok and its connection to Lumpini Park, reported Daily News.

 

After the meeting at Government House his spokesman Anucha Buraphachaisri said that Prayuth hailed the park as a new tourist attraction that Thais could be proud of.

 

And it was something that foreign tourists would enjoy too.

 

The park would bring color to Bangkok in the array of flowers of all seasons that it would have. 

 

It would be great for education, sports, fitness, concerts in the open air.

 

And what a boon it would be for families. 

 

And even the air would be cleaner as the park would help in reducing PM 2.5 problems, he claimed in the gushing assessment as reported by the spokesman. 

 

Pets could be taken there and it would be clean and safe too. 

 

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[clivebaxter]

It's just a park with a few trees in, nothing to hail about. Concentrate on the vaccination 'roll out' mate and stop latching onto anything you think will boost your plummeting approval rating.

[Shuya]

Always the most pressing issues on the top of the agenda. We're all very proud of uncle. 

[smedly]

Seems this has been a top priority all along lol

 

It is rather insulting to even mention it while your massive failures continue

 

shameful

[foreverlomsak]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

And it was something that foreign tourists would enjoy too.

What's going to arrive first the completion of the park or the arrival of foreign tourists

[foreverlomsak]

27 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

It's just a park with a few trees in, nothing to hail about. Concentrate on the vaccination 'roll out' mate and stop latching onto anything you think will boost your plummeting approval rating.

it's called trying to deflect interest away from the failures.

[colinneil]

Does this man never stop spouting nonsense?

No foreign tourists numpty, nobody is interested in it.

People are only interested in getting the vaccine, and money to feed their families.

[chalawaan]

Just to remind us of the idiotic ban on open-air excercise options, and one more place we're not allowed to visit.

What's Pinocchios point?

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

And even the air would be cleaner as the park would help in reducing PM 2.5 problems, he claimed in the gushing assessment as reported by the spokesman. 

My 'gushing' assessment is I don't think one park will reduce Bangkok's air problems much. 

[brommers]

Who gives a fiddlers toss about this when people are starving, the reservation system for vaccinations is a shambles and there are no supplies of vaccine anyway. This idiot is delusional.

 

[khunjeff]

3 hours ago, smedly said:

It is rather insulting to even mention it while your massive failures continue

 

It's certainly strange to brag about it when the public is currently banned from entering parks.

[WineOh]

What foreign tourists? 

[Destiny1990]

So how its connected? 

[ThaiFelix]

I think you will find what he really means is that dirty farang tourists paid for it through various double pricing scams but the Thais can enjoy it for free if they havnt starved already,

[PETERTHEEATER]

Hail Caesar! "Is this a dagger I see before me?" (One lives in hope)

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

After the meeting at Government House his spokesman Anucha Buraphachaisri said that Prayuth hailed the park as a new tourist attraction that Thais could be proud of.

But cut short from offering apologies that it's not open at the moment because of his bungling plans.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, brommers said:

Who gives a fiddlers toss about this when people are starving, the reservation system for vaccinations is a shambles and there are no supplies of vaccine anyway. This idiot is delusional.

 

But well entrenched.

[timmyp]

Yes, it's beautiful to look at through the fence. I have been jogging around it since the lockdown, noting how gorgeous it is and will be if they ever get the construction finished.

It sure will be shame when they have to open up the pretty parks, cuz all the people in them will just ruin the pleasant scenery. Way easier to maintain it all by keeping everyone at home. 

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Hail Caesar! "Is this a dagger I see before me?" (One lives in hope)

Or as "Carry on Caesar" put it:

"Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!"

[sammieuk1]

40 million tourists will be using it in the 4th quarter of the new Millenia at this rate ????

[connda]

No doubt it will be opened then immediately shut:

Closed Due To Covid

 

Everyone knows that SARS-coV-2 is highly transmissible in the fresh air and UV sunlight and open spaces within park settings. 
It's common knowledge which is why parks are immediately closed when a few people sneeze. 

Unlike indoor shopping malls that SARS-coV-2 viruses fly over and around.  Again - common knowledge.  Indoor shopping mall are perfectly safe which is why they are allowed to remain open! 
The PM should be making speeches about shopping malls.

[connda]

4 hours ago, WineOh said:

What foreign tourists? 

"SHHHhhhh."  You're ruining Uncle Tu's fun! ????

[newnative]

Apparently the park has sorted the pollution problem he never got around to fixing.  Well, that was easy.  

[Hanuman2547]

21 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

So how its connected? 

There is the green elevated walkway that connects the park on the northern part of the park near the end of Sukhumvit Soi's 4 & 10.  You can then run or walk from there all the way to Lumpini Park.  It's actually been around for over 20 yeas.

[Hanuman2547]

"And even the air would be cleaner as the park would help in reducing PM 2.5 problems, he claimed in the gushing assessment as reported by the spokesman".

 

I wish the PM would expound more explicitly on how this would be achieved using proven scientific methods.

[Sydebolle]

Well, then - ladies and gentlemen - get ready .........


Once Uncle is admitting the Thai underlings to visit parks again, then alien dirty farang can follow suit after 14 days quarantine plus an entry fee of, say, THB 999 - as a lucky number. 

Are these people for real? Just asking ........ 

[Surelynot]

Does he know he closed it over a month ago?

[Denim]

Disappointing . I was hoping he would laud it but he opted to hail it instead.  Sigh ....

[Justgrazing]

On 6/4/2021 at 4:25 AM, webfact said:

 

And even the air would be cleaner as the park would help in reducing PM 2.5 problems, he claimed in the gushing assessment as reported by the spokesman

 

I was half convinced until I got to that bit .. then it went right out the window ..

[mtls2005]

Once completed it looks to be quite specacular, at least the architectural mock-ups do. Built on unremediated land, contaminated with 50-ish years of tobacco-manufacturing chemicals.

 

Right now? It's a construction site.

 

Maybe hail it once it's completed?

 

 

The regime seems to be casting about for accomplishments, and accolades. Seven years, one sub, two songs, twelve "values".

 

Big PR push to present the PM as accomplished, and a regular guy. Epic fail.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2021 by mtls2005