BKK: soon you can walk in the sky-under the sky-train!

[pong]

there is already a fairly short stretch of it-between SIAM and the Rajprasong crossing, a skywalk, which is a kind of elevated walkway, along the pillars of the BTS=skytrain. This lets you walk off BKks infamous pavements, which are notoriously uneven, with uncovered drainholes, many other obstacles, and if not, taken by enormous crowds of vendors of all things unwanted (but psst-these are poor people, so can only be handled with wollen gloves, they say.

Now the BMA (thats the city council, kind of) proposes (it seems not yet to be finalised) to extend this type of walkway all along under the BTS toward Onnut and even the new xtension (ready, but not yet open-wait for the new trains delivered) toward SamRong, beyond bang Na (a grand total of over 15 kms). Remains to be seen how they solve the going around the stations/stops, but never mind. So you can then save the skytrain fare and walk underneath it but in the shelter of the shade of it. Nice car and busfumes to inhale, as you walk right above them. And another 15 km of space easily to be taken up by yet more poor vendors, as the police wont come there to patrol (the Thessakit may-but they cannot do much more as chase away). Promised to be ready in 2-3 years from now.

As such not a bad idea, but remians to be seen how they solve all that. And construct it without too much interruption to Sukhumvits traffic. No things said about Silom-there it would be much more wished for thing! But I guess the notsopoor vendors there will block any attempt at a construction.

[Guest fountainhall]

I wonder who will pay for all that. I do know that if the underpass is extended to a shopping mall or a hotel, it's the mall and hotel which have to pay a huge amount to cover the distance from the end of the station to their building!