Phichit residents build ‘We Love the King, We Love the Queen’ bridge
A new bridge named Rao Rak Nai Luang, Rao Rak Phra Rachini (“We Love the King, We Love the Queen”) was officially launched in Phichit's Pho Prathab Chang district yesterday.
The six-metre-wide, 60-metre-long bridge, located in Ban Huai Taphan Moo 4 in Tambon Wang Chik, was designed by the Phichit bridge construction centre and built by local villagers. The bridge cost just over Bt4 million and was funded by state agencies.
The bridge, which has solar-powered streetlights, has been built to make merit in honour of the late King as well as to help with transport, especially during floods. Whenever Klong Huai Taphan bursts its banks, the existing roads in the district are impassable.
Phichit Provincial Administrative Organisation president Chatchai Jiamsripong, who attended the opening ceremony yesterday along with provincial governor Weerasak Wichitsaengsi, said this would give the villagers a sense of ownership, and that they would take good care of the bridge.