Bangkok’s green lung: New park to open in Thai capital

[webfact]

 

Rama IX park set to be Bangkok's latest new lung - trees and lakes promised in "Modern Park" setting

 

Bangkok's governor went on Facebook to hail the latest park being constructed in the Thai capital.

 

What is expected to be called the King Rama IX Memorial Park is on land that was formerly the Nang Lerng horse racing track.

 

The park will feature statues of key royal figures and has been called a learning experience and a "modern park".

 

Some 4,500 trees are being planted and there will be extensive water features to mark the departed monarch's work in irrigation.

 

It is expected to be completed in 2024. 

 

Naew Na hailed it as the latest "green lung" for Bangkok. 

 

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[richard_smith237]

A good step, and its great to have a new park... 

 

.... but Bangkok is going to need a lot of these green lungs if it is to counter the pollution it gets at this time of year. 

 

OR.. it can actually enforce existing rules and prevent the burning, prevent factories polluting (instead of taking bribes), deal with the polluting busses, lorries, pickups (black smoke) and only permit clean vehicles. 

 

The Elephant in the Room is seasonal mass pollution.

 

 

Just watch the media over the the next month as ’smog envelops Bangkok’ and enters dangerous levels. 

 

New parks are great but do very little if anything to help this - the issues need to be deal with at root cause. 

 

 

A park.... Great... but Thailand, needs to deal with the problems instead of sidestepping them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2021 by richard_smith237

[ezzra]

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

What is expected to be called the King Rama IX Memorial Park

A befitting name of much needed park and green surrounding to be named after a great man, one of a kind,  whom unreservedly loved nature and his people and the people loved him back...

[hotchilli]

It was a sad day when this much loved monarch parted company with his beloved country.

His heart was truly with Thailand and his people..

Things are somewhat different now.

[bangon04]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

A befitting name of much needed park and green surrounding to be named after a great man, one of a kind,  whom unreservedly loved nature and his people and the people loved him back...

and Thai people will be careful not to litter or damage this shrine. - bonus

[spidermike007]

Good park, good name, good man. Bangkok should have dozens of these parks. They don't, due to the lack of planning, and the lack of regard for the public. Developers and their money are given greater regard than people. And a never ending series of weak, timid, non-visionary politicians are responsible for this atrocity. 

[Hanuman2547]

Bangkok definitely needs more parks.  This will be a great addition.  Just don't get it confused with Rama IX Park in the Prawet area of Bangkok.

[josephbloggs]

On 12/7/2021 at 10:29 PM, spidermike007 said:

Good park, good name, good man. Bangkok should have dozens of these parks. They don't, due to the lack of planning, and the lack of regard for the public. Developers and their money are given greater regard than people. And a never ending series of weak, timid, non-visionary politicians are responsible for this atrocity. 

I have been here 26 years.  There has been more park building (seems like an oxymoron) in the last 3-4 years than in all the 23 years previous to that.  By a long way too.

The Thailand Tobacco Monopoly land could have been given to developers but wasn't, it was turned in to a huge park.  Same with other new public parks.

It's not enough and will never come near somewhere like London which is full of green spaces, but Bangkok has taken huge strides in the right direction in the last few years and it is to be welcomed.

[bobandyson]

On 12/7/2021 at 1:24 PM, ezzra said:

A befitting name of much needed park and green surrounding to be named after a great man, one of a kind,

And it was He who suggested keeping a 'Green Belt' around Bangkok to help the city breathe and to help in absorbing rainfall. He mentioned it again during the 'Great Flood' but sadly still fell on deaf ears of government officials. There's hardly anything left of the greenery around Bangers that was there 30 years ago.