Bangkok pursues canal renovations to improve city landscape

[webfact]

 

By: Tanakorn Sangiam

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) rolled out renovation campaigns for local canals. Works are being done along Khlong Prem Prachakon and Khlong Saen Saep to improve the city’s landscape and its drainage capacity.

 

Progress is being made for the renovation of Khlong Lat Phrao, Khlong Prem Prachakon, and Khlong Saen Saep. Infrastructures invading into public spaces are being removed.

 

City Hall officials are negotiating with villagers living near Khlong Prem Prachakon whose houses or properties extend into the waterway or walkways.

 

Once items and infrastructures are removed, the City Hall will push ahead with renovating walkways and repainting the canal’s walls. Local communities along the canal will get to participate in the planning and design of canalside facilities.

 

For Khlong Saen Saep, the BMA has ordered related divisions to find the sources of odorous water and to work together with private firms and local communities in developing the canal’s renovation plan.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2022-01-07

 

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[hotchilli]

Great idea

 

[mrfill]

'Walkways' or to put it more correctly, motorbike race tracks.

 

[khunjeff]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Once items and infrastructures are removed, the City Hall will push ahead with renovating walkways

I hope they have a more coherent plan than the one being executed along the canal near me, where they've been rebuilding a few hundred meters of walkway for over six years now, with no end in sight. Only 2-3 people are ever working on the project at once, but since they chose to demolish the paths on both sides of the canal at the same time, it's not even possible to cross to the other side to avoid the missing sections. This means long detours away from the canal if one wants to keep walking, which turns an otherwise pleasant experience into something of a complicated slog.

[Callmeishmael]

Five or six years ago a section of the concrete footpath alongside the klong near me collapsed.  A rickety wooden structure was built to replace the missing 25 - 30 meters and then nothing was done for years after that.  Recently the wooden section became more or less unusable and was repaired, but after years of neglect, there is no sign of a proper repair/replacement of the broken section.