Hundreds of Khlong families face losing homes after Bangkok changes project

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Hundreds of Khlong Families Face Losing Homes After City Changes Project
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Clothes dry Sunday over a portion of Khlong Lat Phrao to be redeveloped. Narrow walkways lining the canal will be replaced by a 1.5-meter wide road when renovation is complete in 3.5 years.

BANGKOK — Hundreds if not thousands of families living along Khlong Lat Phrao face an uncertain future after City Hall appeared to change its 1.6 billion-baht renovation plan.

When workers recently arrived to mark out the canal’s future width, residents said they realized City Hall was reneging on a previously reached agreement regarding how wide it would be, changes that would leave a number of communities with no place to live.

“We first agreed that communities could continue to live 25 meters away from the edge of the canal, but they have now marked that point as 32-meters away,” Jamras Klin-ubon, leader of the Lat Prao 45 community group, said Monday.

In February, the military government first announced it would redevelop Khlong Lat Phrao and several others to improve transportation and waterflow. Concrete berms would be erected along both sides of Khlong Lat Phrao for 22.5 kilometers, affecting more than 7,000 families.

Where permitted by the space available, an agreement was reached allowing residents to stay in shared townhomes designed by the Community Organizations Development Institute.

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-- Khaosod English 2016-01-20

[z42]

Hats off to anyone willing to live around these khlongs. They absolutely stink, all of them, surely the city authorities have a duty of care to move them somewhere less exposed to the filth they will undoubtedly be at the mercy of now. They should I know, but understand very well TIT......

[trogers]

And why does the klong stinks?

[shirtless]

This government dont care less about its people , move them to where, note not one government official will lose his home.

[trogers]

This government dont care less about its people , move them to where, note not one government official will lose his home.

Should past governments had cared, there would not have been squatters and slums in the first place. Why place blame on the present govt for doing what the previous should have had done?

[halloween]

This government dont care less about its people , move them to where, note not one government official will lose his home.

How many government officials are illegally squatting on the klong and using it for a sewer? That's right, not one.

Edited January 20, 2016 by halloween

[toybits]

And why does the klong stinks?

The Klongs stink because of a process called Eutrophication. see link below:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eutrophication

[VocalNeal]

^ and the canals in Ghent in Belgium smell worse. It is not solely a Thai related problem. Where possible the homes that can should remain. The other problem is that they move families to government apartments miles from anywhere with no jobs nearby.

[mango66]

Hats off to anyone willing to live around these khlongs. They absolutely stink, all of them, surely the city authorities have a duty of care to move them somewhere less exposed to the filth they will undoubtedly be at the mercy of now. They should I know, but understand very well TIT......

does any one of this Khlog people have any legal land title ??

How did they posess the land ?

Just occupay - and claim and shout after it's yours !

We live near -

this Jungle area have to be civiliced !

If you not agree,

do a nicely sunday walk around this klongs !!

Dont go really inside,

it's question youll be back out healthy !

Or order an Ambulance in advance !!

[chrisandsu]

Have no idea what the posters above is trying to imply but .... As someone who has family living along the klongside, they have been there generations . You can't just bulldoze with no alternatives ?? I'm sure most of these people are just as less squatters as the farmland you stuck your farang castle on in easarn that your in laws claim to own !! Have a little compassion