PROPERTY
State urged to set up fund for more park & ride facilities
Incentives should come with solutions
To make Bangkok more liveable, the government should establish a fund to build more park & ride facilities and offer tax incentives to buildings allocating their spaces for public use, suggests Thaweejit Chandrasakha, the president of the Association of Siamese Architects.
He said the current city plan, which rewarded high-rise buildings in Lat Phrao that have built more parking spaces than required by law by giving them 30 square metres more of floor-area ratio (FAR) to promote the park & ride concept, was not practical as the trade-off was not worth it.
A 10-square-wah parking space practically calls for a space of up to 40 sq m to accommodate driveways and walkways.
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- Writer: Kanana Katharangsiporn
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