Published on November 18, 2005

Two more overpasses at the Lat Phrao intersection will open to traffic at 5am today. Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said he believed the overpasses would improve traffic flow on Vibhavadi-Rangsit road by 80 per cent.

“There will be no more red lights on the road,” he said yesterday as he inspected the overpasses ahead of their opening.

From today, the Lat Phrao intersection will have three overpasses.

Apirak said the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has prepared 20,000 leaflets about the overpass routes, which now number three in total, to be handed out to motorists. – The Nation.

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KRATHONG COLLECTION

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) collected 1,260,000 krathongs, or decorative floats, from waterways in the capital following Loy Krathong on Wednesday night.

“The number was down 11 per cent from the 1,420,656 krathongs collected last year,” Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said yesterday.

The BMA ran a campaign titled “One Family, One Krathong” ahead of the festival in a bid to reduce garbage levels. Observers believe that the BMA’s campaign for “bread krathongs” which are eaten by fish, was another reason for the decrease in the number of floats that needed to be collected.

Apirak said styrofoam krathongs accounted for only 20 per cent of the krathongs that were collected this year. – The Nation.

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