Thread: Bangkok to open more parks this year

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to open more “15- minute” parks this year to provide city residents with nearby recreational spaces.


According to Pornphrom Vikitsreth, an advisor to the Bangkok governor, the “15-minute” park project is an answer to the shortage of big parks in the city and provides green areas which are a short walking distance from communities, so people can use them for recreation or to take their pets (where pets are not banned).


Pornphrom said yesterday (Monday) that the BMA has already acquired 107 plots of land, which can be transformed into public parks and which are within a 15-minute walk from surrounding communities.


Of the 107 plots, 42 belong to the city administration, 27 belong to private individuals and the rest are owned by the State Railway of Thailand and Expressway Authority of Thailand. The combined area of the 107 plots is 105.4 hectares.


Pornphrom said that 13 of the plots have already been turned into public parks, but the BMA wants to build at least 30 parks each year in Bangkok, with a 30 million baht budget allocated annually for this project, adding that smaller parks will be more accessible and convenient for city residents, unlike larger parks which may be too far away.

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And like most such areas the so-called green parks will end up a tatty, threadbare scrubby grass patch dotted with forlorn looking clumps of leaf shedding trees and not a flower in sight.

Singapore it ain’t.

” Why you care, empty land make no moneeeeee, na!”

Pornphrom said yesterday (Monday) that the BMA has already acquired 107 plots of land, which can be transformed into public parks and which are within a 15-minute walk from surrounding communities.

So the parks are...in the communities where, err, the parks are.

Brilliant!

^Ditto

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

And like most such areas the so-called green parks will end up a tatty, threadbare scrubby grass patch dotted with forlorn looking clumps of leaf shedding trees and not a flower in sight.

When I lived in BKK went to Lumpini near everyday. Only a a short walk from my office. Never saw litter. Trees, shrubs and flowers all well maintained as are *most" parks throughout the country.

Can never have enough parks, natural areas and green spaces - especially in an urban environment.
It's all good.

Originally Posted by aging one

We are lucky enough to have had one built a 10 minute drive from ours.

Or a 2 minute walk

You got a park near your depot, Reg?