CITY LIFE
Sukhumbhand's vision for Victory
One of the capital's biggest transportation hubs is getting ready to clean up its act
- Published: 17 Nov 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
Filthy, stinking toilets and unruly stalls on the pavements around Victory Monument will soon be a distant memory for commuters and tourists when a City Hall move to clean up the area is completed by February.
Aside from the cleaner look, more amenities for commuters have been pledged by City Hall to give a major facelift to this most vital of bus junctions through which hundreds of thousands of people pass every day.
As many long-suffering commuters will attest, a clean-up of the Victory Monument area is way past due, a fact that has not escaped the attention of Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra.
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