BMA sends bigger garbage trucks, setting up toilets
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is sending five-tonne garbage trucks instead of the usual two-tonne trucks to the area near Sanam Luang, while also installing 55 temporary toilets before Saturday.
Starting Saturday, people will be allowed to enter the Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall in the Grand Palace to pay their respects before the Royal Urn.
Suwanna Jungrungrueng, director of the BMA’s environmental department, said a garbage truck would be sent in every hour to collect litter in the area on weekdays, while the number of trucks would be increased during the weekends or holidays.
Two spots will be designated parking areas for garbage trucks – one near the Veteran Monument of World War I and the other near the Parnpopob Leela Bridge Park. A back-up parking area will also be set at Santiporn Park.
Meanwhile, the 55 temporary toilets, sponsored by Siam Cement Group, will be installed in four locations – two within Sanam Luang and two near Santiporn Park and Thammasat University.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand also donated 1,000 bottles of wastewater treatment solution to related agencies for usage in Sanam Luang kitchens, and will make repeated donations every month until the royal cremation is finished, she said.
Meanwhile, Bangkok deputy governor Amnuay Nimmano yesterday said street vendors were prohibited from operating in areas around the Grand Palace and Sanam Luang, and called on members of the public to alert city authorities via the 1899 hotline if the rule is violated.
He also said the scheme of getting children to wear cards with details about their parents had proven successful after six missing kids were returned to their parents on Wednesday.
