Earlier this week I was sitting in the customary traffic jam on Sukhumvit near Phra Khanong Bridge and found myself gazing at the tangled mess of overhead cables which have decorated Bangkok's streets for so long. It was not a pretty sight, especially dangling in front of ageing shophouses and filthy iron grilles that are not exactly a vision of splendour themselves.
I recall about three years ago the former governor of Bangkok reassuring us that all those ugly overhead cables would be gone "within two years". Thankfully nobody took too much notice of these promises as city officials have been saying that sort of thing for decades.
Work has admittedly started in dealing with what is sometimes referred to as "sky spaghetti". But the very thought of having to move hundreds of kilometres of cable underground is enough to make even the bravest politician tremble.
