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Taxi-top garden: Thailand’s idle cabs come to life as drivers grow food on roofs

The result looks more like an eye-grabbing art installation than a car park, which draws attention to the plight of operators who have been badly hit by coronavirus lockdown measures

FP Staff
September 28, 2021 15:15:47 IST

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In a car park in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok, green shoots sprout from the roofs of colourful taxis. A mass graveyard for Bangkok’s flamboyantly coloured cabs left idle and decaying by coronavirus curbs has come to life with mini vegetable gardens and frog ponds set up to help feed out-of-work drivers. AFP

Workers at the Ratchaphruek Taxi Cooperative built the miniature gardens by stretching black bin liners across bamboo frames and covering them with soil. They then planted a variety of crops, including chillies, cucumbers and courgettes. AFP

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Workers at the Ratchaphruek Taxi Cooperative built the miniature gardens by stretching black bin liners across bamboo frames and…

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