Bangkok street cables to be relocated to turn it into Smart Metro

[rooster59]

Bangkok street cables to be relocated to turn it into Smart Metro

Tanakorn Sangiam

 

 

BANGKOK, 11 August 2017 (NNT) – Authorities have begun to relocate electricity and utility cables along Pahon Yothin road in effort to turn Bangkok into Smart Metro. 

Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda presided over the launching ceremony for the campaign to relocate electricity and utility cables by the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) and related agencies. 

The campaign aimed to relocate electricity and utility wires underground at Chatuchak Park on Pahon Yothin road to improve the landscape aesthetically and facilitate future development of Bangkok as an ASEAN metropolitan. 

The MEA plans to remove 800 electricity poles along Pahon Yothin road from Lad Prao intersection to Victory Monument. The work will be carried out into four phases. The removed poles will be donated to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for use in its anti-erosion project along Bang Khun Thian seashore.

 

 

 

-- nnt 2017-08-12

[Thian]

Great! And also remove those lowhanging trafficsigns/umbrella's with sharp edges please. Very dangerous to walk there for tall people.

[canopus1969]

Bangkok will never be a "Smart Metro"  

[trainman34014]

Ah; 'Smart Metro'....just in time before the City finally sinks into the mud forever !

[trogers]

Removing 800 electric poles?

 

You will get a smart and dark metro lacking proper street lights...

[Deez]

About as believable as Pattaya as a family resort

[hansnl]

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Ah; 'Smart Metro'....just in time before the City finally sinks into the mud forever !

That doesn't need to be a big worry.

Just follow some advices already given.

No more sinking.

[scotchonrocks]

In developed countries street lighting poles have to comply with regulations concerning their ability to bend or break in a vehicle accident to protect humans in the vehicles. This design approach has no doubt saved thousands of lives. No such luck in Asia and in particular Thailand where human life appears to have little value to designers and policy makers. 

[Jonmarleesco]

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Authorities have begun to relocate electricity and utility cables along Pahon Yothin road in effort to turn Bangkok into Smart Metro.

One location? They think that is going to create their concept of a smart metro?  

[Jonmarleesco]

7 hours ago, Thian said:

Great! And also remove those lowhanging trafficsigns/umbrella's with sharp edges please. Very dangerous to walk there for tall people.

As in taller than the average Thai.

[Thian]

3 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

As in taller than the average Thai.

There are also plenty tall young thai in BKK. Never saw tall ones outside of BKK though.

[Yme]

14 hours ago, hansnl said:

That doesn't need to be a big worry.

Just follow some advices already given.

No more sinking.

Not so.

Quite a good map here showing that most of Bangkok -- including the two airports – are only marginally above sea level now, while the Wetropolis solution has already been discredited. 

 

https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/preferring-to-neither-sink-or-swim-jokowi-pulls-the-plug-on-jakarta-aseans-sinking-cities/#axzz4nkHK43Ot .

 

 

[Redline]

How does that make it smart?

[Mosber]

It's a good idea. It will make the landscape more beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

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