Friday, February 25, 2011

?Super Skywalk? to end Bangkok?s pedestrian nightmare

It's a common site on Bangkok's streets. Sweaty tourists, a look of determined frustration in their eyes, battling to push a stroller through a maze of sidewalk vendors, pot holes, random dangling wires and poles, as their toddler bounces about in delight. Rarely will you see a Bangkok resident pushing a baby stroller anywhere other than in a shopping mall, let alone a person in a wheel chair. They know better. But rather than tackle the city?s nightmare sidewalks on the ground, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced it?s spending 15 billion baht to build a ?Super Skywalk System,? a 50-kilometer covered, elevated walking space through some of the city's busiest neighborhoods that also connects to the BTS and MRT. read more

Julia Stiles Julianne Hough Julie Benz Julie Berry K. D. Aubert Karen Carreno

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