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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is conducting surveys to build more
bicycle trails to promote riding bikes and other environmentally friendly
vehicles as part of a campaign to help fight global warming, Bangkok governor
Apirak Kosayodhin said Saturday.
Leading a large gathering of famous
singers and actors, the Bangkok governor and a procession of assorted
celebrities rode their bicycles through busy traffic from scenic
Narathiwatratnakarin Road along Sathorn Road to Wireless Road and Lumpini Park
as part of a campaign to urge Bangkokians to ride bicycles pass through the
traffic and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas emissions, which
contribute to global warming.
The governor said that City Hall will
build and map more bicycle routes to promote saving energy, the habit of
healthful exercise, and visits to tourist sites along the bike
trails.
The BMA also plans to boost the number of bicycle parking lots at
elevated train stations and subway stations to encourage the public to use the
metropolitan areas' expanding mass transit system, Governor Apirak said.
City Hall has been conducting activities designed to promote reducing
global warming on the ninth of every month. On Monday (July 9), the metropolitan
administration will launch activities focusing on switching off car engines
while parked and reducing dust.
A "Lights Off" campaign was carried out
in May in the capital to raise public awareness of the contribution of electric
light to severe global warming. Not all of Bangkok's at least 10 million
residents turned off their lights, but enough joined the nighttime activity to
vividly demonstrate life without light. (TNA)
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