Thailand's oldest public city park set for a billion baht remodelling and redevelopment in next 2 years

[webfact]

 

Bangkok's mayor joined with embassy staff and dignitaries at Lumpini park yesterday to announce a major redevelopment of what is Thailand's oldest public park.

 

Gen Aswin Kwanmuang said that Lumpini first opened in 1925 and since then has been an iconic memory for everyone who has visited. 

 

But it needs an upgrade to bring it into the 21st century so they are spending a billion baht on improvements over the next two years. 

 

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He promised to preserve its historical value, address climate change issues, integrate cultural diversity, provide recreational activities and make it suitable for people of all ages and genders and social status. 

 

It will be done in two phases, the first costing 140 million baht over 240 days then the main work completed with the rest of the budget with a finish date in 2024. 

 

Pictures: Daily News

 

Daily News had artist's impressions of some of the new landscaping and features. 

 

The media called it a 100 year anniversary remodelling of the famous park, named after the birthplace of the Lord Buddha. 

 

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[Tropicalevo]

A billion baht would support a lot of unemployed people!

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Aswin Kwanmuang said that Lumpini first opened in 1925 and since then has been an iconic memory for everyone who has visited. 

I agree, I went once for a look, the discarded plastic bags stuck in the bushes and up trees remain with me to today.

I didn't return.

[Tropposurfer]

I hope, whatever they do, they don't increase the percentage of concrete and increase the percentage of life-giving trees and other greenery. the overhead walkways in this particular artist impression seem completely unnecessary to me. What we as humans need is more contact with the nature/ the earth not the opposite. 

[rak sa_ngop]

Leave it alone. Its wonderful as it is. Dont turn it into a Disney world for the grots.

[roquefort]

13 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

A billion baht would support a lot of unemployed people!

It will give quite a few of them jobs too.

[bangkok19]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

He promised to preserve its historical value, address climate change issues, integrate cultural diversity, provide recreational activities and make it suitable for people of all ages and genders and social status. 

"Climate change, diversity, gender"

Maybe a statue of a katoey and some wind turbines and solar panels....

PLEASE...  leave the park alone, it's still green... and considered the lungs of Bangkok.

Hopefully, to pay for this unnecessary "upgrade" they DON'T have a two-tiered Park admission fee at the front gate.   

[cobra]

Hope they leave the Monitor lizards and turtles alone, they're the main attraction.

[Excel]

14 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I agree, I went once for a look, the discarded plastic bags stuck in the bushes and up trees remain with me to today.

I didn't return.

Its an illustration to overseas visitors exactly what some Thai people are like when it comes for concerns for rubbish disposal and looking after public facilities. 

[Darkside Gray]

Bring back the golf course!

[unblocktheplanet]

What the fatcats have done everywhere else does NOT inspire a lot of hope...