The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has initiated a new endeavour to enhance the city’s traffic islands, lands under expressways, and public pavements.

 

The project, dubbed “Beautiful Roads”, aims to augment the overall landscape of roads, including road surfaces, traffic lights, light poles, on-road utilities, and the reorganisation of street food vendors, and roadside surroundings.

 

Chadchart Sittipunt, the Bangkok governor, revealed that the project is a collaboration between the BMA, the Public Works Department, the Environment Department and the Traffic and Transport Department.

 

The initiative will initially target three major roads in Bangkok: Ram Intra Road (the Pink Line train section), Ramkhamhaeng Road (Lam Sali-Min Buri section of the Orange Line), and Lat Phrao-Srinakarin Road (Yellow Line section).

 

by Mitch Connor

Image by Andrey Khrobostov

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/bangkoks-beautiful-roads-project-aims-to-enhance-cityscape

 

-- The Thaiger 2023-09-02

 

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More expensive light poles? Big business for some. Why not start collecting all the rubbish and plastic along these corridors, plant some trees and have the traffic rules enforced at crossings? 

Why do I get the sense that what's really going to happen is driving out all the little local vendors, to push the people into the malls they're building.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The project, dubbed “Beautiful Roads”, aims to augment the overall landscape of roads, including road surfaces, traffic lights, light poles, on-road utilities, and the reorganisation of street food vendors, and roadside surroundings.

Should be named "Killing Fields"

How long will this last?

Why are the comments so negative?  At least planting more trees will improve the scenery and the air quality.

 

"The project plans to cultivate more trees on road islands and pavements across 14 districts, covering 34 kilometres."

On 9/2/2023 at 7:00 PM, VincentRJ said:

Why are the comments so negative?  At least planting more trees will improve the scenery and the air quality.

 

"The project plans to cultivate more trees on road islands and pavements across 14 districts, covering 34 kilometres."

Maybe because many here have become rather skeptical over the years, as authorities here couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.

Apart from all the plastic floating around, there's one thing that a first time tourist initially notices, but for some reason it's quickly accepted and no further notice taken!

That is the miles and miles of wiring/cable running uncovered between wooden or concrete poles sometimes at a safe height but occasionally at head hight and on a bad day actually on the floor.

I know it's never going to be done, just imagine the positive look j;;;;;;,