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GREENER CITY

Suharit Siamwalla
Use the income for Bangkok's garbage concessions to build more parks.

Sopon Pornchokechai
Encourage vertical development by introducing tax exemptions for developers who build parks near their projects; negotiate to transform private empty spaces into parks.

Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Introduce 5,000 rai of green space through 10 new parks; build Bangkok's first island park and dog park; support installation of private green roofs; move electricity lines underground.

Pongsapat Pongcharoen
Expand parks; rent land from the Treasury Department t2o build more parks; transform spaces under expressways into green spaces; offer free Wi-Fi at all parks; build walkways and bicycle lanes along the Chao Phraya River.

Toranee Ritteedhamrong
Build herbal parks on vacant government land around Bangkok.

BICYCLE CITY

Pongsapat Pongcharoen
Promising to personally cycle to work; clear all obstacles, motorcycles and vendors from bike lanes; allow cyclists to carry bikes on the BTS and buses.
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Create 30 new bike lanes; install 10,000 new rental bikes around the city; build bathrooms for cyclists at the new BMA office in Dindaeng.
Suharit Siamwalla
Make bicycles the top transportation choice by system and law; build bike lanes connecting with the BTS, MRT and Airport Link; introduce a monthly Car-Free Day.
Sopon Pornchokechai
Implement the First Electric Bicycle project to provide people with cheap electric bicycles.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Sereepisut Temeeyaves
Free air-con buses.
Pongsapat Pongcharoen
Free buses with new routes between Bangkok and the suburbs; reduce all air-con bus tickets to B10; reduce BTS tickets to all stations to B20; free boats in canals; introduce a monorail system between BTS and MRT.
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Reduce the BRT price from B10 to B5; reduce BTS tickets at extension stations from B15 to B10; develop a new mini-BRT that doesn't take up car lanes; introduce boat routes in Paseecharoen Canal connecting to the new BTS stations; install five light rail and monorail routes around the city.
Kosit Suvinijjit
24-hour transportation system on both land and water.
Sanhapot Suksrimuang
Annul all contracts with private buses and buy more buses for the BMTA.
Wasin Pirom
Free rides on the BTS and MRT before 7am.
Sophon Pornchokchai
Upgrade the BRT to BTS or light rail network.

CONSERVATION

Pongsapat Pongcharoen
Reintroduce a 12km monorail route with 12 stations in the Rattanakosin area.
Sophon Pornchokchai
Classify historical areas as “Thainess conservative districts” and create the world's biggest night bazaar in the Rattanakosin area.
Pratheep Watcharachokkasem
Build only tall buildings in inner Bangkok to match land prices.
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Add and support cultural and conservation areas such as Taladploo, Bangkoknoi, Talingchan and Kadeejeen.

DISABILITY-FRIENDLY CITY

Chamras Intumas No.15
Social welfare for elderly and disabled people of B5,000 a month.
Pongsapat Pongcharoen No.9
Build disabled-friendly footpaths; improve access to BTS; encourage schools to accept disabled kids to study alongside fully-abled students; create a disabled peoples register to better provide them with homes or professional care.
Sereepisut Temeeyaves No.11
Improve building entrances and bus stops for disabled people.
Sukhumbhand Paribatra No.16
Install 350 footways for disabled people; register another 20,000 disabled people, on top of the 40,000 already recorded, to better provide them with social welfare; add 100 disabled-friendly taxis; install more the 100 disabled access points on the BTS.

WALKING-FRIENDLY CITY

Pongsapat Pongcharoen
Organize vendors and make footpaths clean and clear; create market space above Padungkrungkasem Canal to fix footpath problem at Bobae markets; open Bangkok’s OTOP market to sell all year round.
Pratheep Watcharachokkasem
Redesign footpaths in the city, including creating a Walk of Fame footpath in front of CentralWorld.
Suharit Siamwala
Strictly enforce laws regarding street vendors and motorcyclists who ride on footpaths; fix damaged pavements; improve signage on pavements; rotate cheap shopping streets around the city.
Sophon Pornchokchai
Reorganize BMA's rental agreements with vendors; educate people about footpath usage and fine both vendors and pedestrians who violate the law; build motorcycle taxi parking lots away from footpaths.
Natdanai Phubetatthavich
Allow vendors to sell 24/7.
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Build skywalks along Sukhumvit and Phaya Thai roads; strictly specify spaces for vendors; open a direct line for complaints about vendors (1555); create a special panel to deal with issues; increase municipal police presence to correspond with number of vendors.
Sereepisut Temeeyaves
Build air-con sky markets for vendors to leave footpaths for pedestrians.

WHO ARE THE CANDIDATES?

2. Waranchai Chokchana, 61
A civil servant, he quit his job in 1986 to run for senator. In 1990, he ran for governor for the first time.

3. Mettha Temchamnarn, 64
Ex-actor turned independent politician, army captain Mettha Temchamnarn ran in the general election in 1983, the governor election in 2004 and again in 2008. He wants to surround Bangkok with rice fields where people can harvest and sell their rice to the government. He would make Thonburi a separate province.

4. Dr. Sophon Pornchokchai, 55
He is the President of the Agency for Real Estate Affairs Company Limited (AREA), a consultancy specializing in property valuation services. He is also the President of the Thai Appraisal Foundation, an NGO to develop standards in property valuation.

6. Sanhapot Suksrimuang, 40
Born in Nakohn Si Thammarat, Sanhapot is a businessman at conveyor belt manufacturer V-Belt and formerly an advisor to the Lawyers’ Council of Thailand. As for his campaign poster, it promises to fix Bangkok’s problems—including traffic—in 60 days.

7. Natdanai Phubetarthavich, 56
President of Saksit Alloy, a big manufacturer of fencing, roofing and garden furniture. He promises free education for all by recruiting volunteer teachers. He also wants markets to operate 24/7.

9. Police General Pongsapat Pongcharoen, 57
Graduated top of his class at the Police Cadet Academy. He was chief of the Narcotics Control Board before running for governor as the Pheu Thai Party candidate.

10. Kosit Suvinitjit, tkage
A former CEO of a media company and Spring News channel, and advisor to many ministers. Under the concept “24-hour Bangkok,” Kosit would instantly launch four policies to deal with our problems: more road signs, raising the standards of schools, preparing for AEC, and 24-hour security.

11. Police General Sereepisut Temeeyaves, 64
One-time commissioner of the Royal Thai Police, Sereepisut battled communists in Nakhon Panom during the 1970s, forced Chonburi’s recently arrested crime boss into exile, and busted Newin’s Bhumjaithai Party for vote-buying.

13. Wasin Pirom, 32
A professor at the Department of Media Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, he’s credited as director on Thai video game PanPan. His company  publishes e-learning media. He’s also a singer and creates 3D animations.

14. Pratheep Watcharachokkasem, 60
Originally disqualified for allegedly not voting in the 2011 election, the Election Commission then reinstated him when Pratheep provided documents proving his participation. Former member of the Bangkok Council and head of the Klong Toei Association.

15. Chamras Intumas, 57
A member of the Thai Por Pieng Party, which advocates living according to HM the King’s theory of self-sufficiency, he is a lawyer who assists the poor when fighting expropriation from their lands.

16. M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, 60
Bangkok’s last governor, a democrat, was elected in January 2009. He announced his candidacy before getting the party nod, but eventually got Abhisit's blessing. Sukhumbhand is the great-grandson of King
Rama V.

17 Suharit Siamwala, 46
This electronic DJ and wacky fashion icon was formerly the managing director of his family’s stationery and office equipment business, DHA Siamwalla Ltd.

21. Toranee Riteetamrong, 63
Toranee told The Nation: "I had a dream in which King Rama V told me to run in the gubernatorial election. So, I came here." The spouse of a former Thai ambassador, she hosted a TV show decades ago. Her plan is to encourage the rich to donate to the poor and launch local newspapers in every district so that people can voice their opinions.