Bangkok’s cables and wires, looped haphazardly above the city’s streets, is understood not solely to be an eye-sore, but also an electrician’s nightmare. Now, the capital’s officials are planning to get around 1,400 kilometres of electrical cables and communication lines underground within the subsequent three years. Work for the challenge will begin this yr.
This 12 months, 450 kilometres of communication lines will be positioned underground, in accordance with Nation Thailand, citing MP from the ruling Palang Pracharath Party, Korranit Ngamsukonratana. Then, over the course of the following three years, 936 kilometres of the remaining lines shall be moved underground.
For the venture, metropolis officers will work with the Metropolitan Electricity Authority, Provincial Electricity Authority, and National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. The MP added that in different provinces, officers plan to maneuver 6,000 kilometres of cables underground.
An international conversation about Bangkok’s tangled wires erupted after actor Russell Crowe visited Thailand to film a movie and posted a photograph of the sky and overhead wires with the caption “Bangkok dreaming.” Many commented on the post with photographs of wiring bunched, looped, and tangled collectively. โซล่าเซลล์ in Bangkok even launched a press release defending itself, saying the cables were not theirs..