Royal Thai Police advisor Lt. Col. Wuthi
Liptapanlop leans in to talk with foreign guests at the new consumer
protection office inside city hall.
Phasakorn Channgam
The Transport Ministry will spend 15 million baht to create a
wheelchair-accessible pedestrian bridge over Sukhumvit Road.
Assistant Minister Prasert Janthrawongthong joined Rev. Michael Picharn
Jaiseri, president of Father Ray Foundation, and Deputy Mayor Ronakit
Ekasingh at the Redemptorist School for Disabilities Jan. 24 to inspect
the site of the planned elevators and bridge over Sukhumvit near the
145-kilometer marker.
Prasert noted that the school has more than 300 disabled students, many
of whom need to traverse the busy highway. The ministry, thus, plans to
fund the first crossover bridge outfitted with elevators in the area to
ensure their safety.
Suporntum Mongkolsawadi, managing director for
Thailand’s Association of the Disabled thanked the ministry on behalf of
the foundation “for realizing the importance of the disabled who have
difficulties while travelling and had organized construction of a
crossover bridge.”
The crossover was proposed as part of the planned project to construct a
traffic-bypass tunnel under Sukhumvit Road at Central Road. But with
that project repeatedly delayed, Transport Ministry officials decided to
move forward with the pedestrian bridge.
