出租车车顶的迷你花园
2021-06-15雷卓琳
雷卓琳
據报道,泰国的一个出租车公司利用因疫情而闲置的出租车车顶种花和种菜,将废弃的出租车变成一个个“屋顶花园”。
A “car graveyard” in Bangkok for its brightly coloured cabs has been turned into a vegetable garden with frog ponds, set up to help feed out of work drivers. In an open air parking lot in the west of the Thailand s capital, green shoots fed by rain start to grow from the roofs of the city s pink and orange taxis.
The site is owned by Ratchapruk Taxi Garage, which has seen most of its drivers quit Bangkok for their home villages because of the lockdown restrictions.
“Many of the vehicles still have large loans outstanding on them. This is our last option,” one of the company owners said. “We figured we d grow vegetables and farm frogs on the roofs of these taxis.”
Thailand ordered tough restrictions to deal with the COVID 19 cases in recent months, including a night time curfew (宵禁令). Tourists, normally a mainstay(支柱) of the Bangkok taxi trade, have become gradually fewer to almost none because of strict rules on entering the kingdom.
The eggplants, chillies, cucumbers and other vegetables grown on the cars, along with the frogs, will help feed the out of work drivers and employees. And if crops are good, they plan to sell them at local markets.
Growing vegetables on top of the roofs won t damage the taxis since most of them have already been damaged beyond repair.4C1F193C-5322-4D34-A264-0695750EB7AF