Licensed architect in New York since 2006. Yan is the project planner and initiator of a research grant from Rockefeller Foundation involving ways to connect Bangkok’s canals to Metro Rapid Transit (MRT) transit stations. Bangkok has over a thousand canals; most of them are lined with slums and informal settlements.
The intersections of MRT stations and canal lines are potential economic catalysts for the development of canal-side slums. In terms of the city’s overall connectivity, such hybrid linkages of canals and metro transit would provide rapid – and random – long distant “jump” across the city, a phenomenon that could not be provided by any one type of transit system alone.

See local news coverages: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/1105425/linking-waterways-with-rail-systems-could-ease-traffic-woes


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