A mass graveyard for Bangkok’s charmingly colorful cabs is lying idle and rotting coronavirus The restrictions are coming to life with small vegetable gardens and the installation of frog ponds to help feed non-working drivers. In an open-air parking lot west of the Thai capital, rows of pink and orange taxis grow green shoots fed by monsoon rain from roofs and bonnets. Tiny greenish-brown frogs perch among 200 or so abandoned cars on makeshift ponds made of old tires in the tropical heat. The site is owned by Ratchapruk Taxi Garage, which has seen most of its drivers leave Bangkok for their home villages as fares have come down after lockdown restrictions.
“This is our last option,” Thapakorn Asavalartkun, one of the company’s owners, told AFP.
“We figured we’d grow vegetables and farm frogs on the roofs of these taxis.”
Thailand imposed strict restrictions, including a night-time curfew, in recent months to tackle a deadly spike in Covid cases.
Tourists, usually the mainstay of the Bangkok taxi business, are virtually nonexistent due to the strict rules on entering the state.
Eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and basil – grown on the cars – will help feed the frogs as well as non-working drivers and employees.
And if the harvest is good, they plan to sell any surplus in local markets.
“Growing vegetables on rooftops will not harm the taxis as most of them are already damaged beyond repair. Engines are broken, tires are flat. Nothing like that can be done,” Thapakorn said.
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