The increase and fall of Klong Ong Ang

A view of Ong Ang Canal in Phra Nakhon district after the public implicated the BMA of carelessness in looking after the location, triggering it to lose worth as a Bangkok landmark. Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Photos revealing the sorry state of Klong Ong Ang — a canal in Bangkok’s Samphanthawong that was when promoted as an example of effective metropolitan revitalisation — justrecently trended on social media, triggering fears that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) under guv Chadchart Sittipunt is no longer interested in the job. To comprehend the factor for the task’s decay, the Bangkok Post checkedout the canal and spoke with homeowners to see if there is still hope for Klong Ong Ang. THE DEVELOPMENT The location surrounding Klong Ong Ang hasactually been understood as Saphan Lek Market because1983 Since then, over 500 suppliers selling various items haveactually called the location home. The absence of area, integrated with the lack of structure policies, implied suppliers typically had to broaden their stores to the street in front to shop their items. When that shown to be insufficient, they turned their sights to the canal, structure annexes over the water. In 2015, then-Bangkok guv Aswin Kwanmuang started a task to revitalise the area. Under the plan, the BMA recovered the pavements and enhanced pedestrian traffic management along the canal. The administration invested about 400 million baht to tidy up the canal and develop a 1.5-kilometre boardwalk that extends from Saphan Lek, or Damrong Sathit bridge to Osathanon bridge. The strip was turned into a strolling street lined with stores, street art and public green locations, drawingin visitors from all over the city and producing more earnings for regional neighborhoods. The job likewise enhanced the canal’s water quality, enabling visitors to take part in water-related activities, such as kayaking and paddle-boarding. Just 5 years after the task was started, the Klong Ong Ang revitalisation plan won the United Nations’ Human Settlements Programme Asian Townscape Award, and was hailed as a design for neighborhood advancement jobs in city locations. THE DECAY The existing Bangkok guv, nevertheless, does not appear to s
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