Underground cable work at Victory Monument to be completed next week

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Metropolitan Electricity Authority’s project to move power and communications cables underground on the stretch from the Lat Phrao intersection to Victory Monument is on course to be completed ahead of schedule, MEA assistant governor Thirawat Thepamnuaysuk said.

 

He said the project, scheduled to be completed at the end of the month, would be completed on Monday.

 

The project aims to free the eight-kilometre-long Phaholyothin Road--from the Lat Phrao intersection to Victory Monument--from the tangle of overhead cables.

 

On Monday, the MEA will hold a ceremony to remove the last power pole in front of Channel 5 TV station, he added.

 

He was speaking to reporters on Tuesday while inspecting the progress of the project to reorganise power and communication cables on North Sathorn Road.

 

The MEA will remove all unused communications cables and make it mandatory for communications operators to rearrange their wires by labelling them and putting them into holders prepared by the MEA, Thirawat said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327193

 

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51 minutes ago, webfact said:

The MEA will remove all unused communications cables and make it mandatory for communications operators to rearrange their wires by labelling them and putting them into holders prepared by the MEA, Thirawat said.

So the comms cables, instead of being up and (mostly) out of the way will now reside in these "holders" (whatever that means) for the next x months years centuries.

 

How can the MEA impose anything on the telecoms providers? After all they are no longer providing anything to the comms chaps having removed the poles that they were using.

 

Some "before" and "After" images would be nice, to show just what has been achieved.

 

Saw the before and after photos Serious improvement Good Job

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

So the comms cables, instead of being up and (mostly) out of the way will now reside in these "holders" (whatever that means) for the next x months years centuries.

 

How can the MEA impose anything on the telecoms providers? After all they are no longer providing anything to the comms chaps having removed the poles that they were using.

 

Some "before" and "After" images would be nice, to show just what has been achieved.

 

Of course they can be charged.

Before: charged for using the poles.

After: charged for using the underground structures.

You really think private companies should not pay for using state property?

14 minutes ago, hansnl said:

Of course they can be charged.

Before: charged for using the poles.

After: charged for using the underground structures.

You really think private companies should not pay for using state property?

No, that's not what I said. Where in my post does it state anything about "charging"?

 

MEA have thrown the comms providers off the poles (do they actually charge for the use?), but then state they will "make it mandatory for communications operators to rearrange their wires", MEA don't have that power, BMA likely do.

 

In reality there has (hopefully) been some co-ordination and the comms cables are now in "holes" provided by MEA.

 

23 hours ago, webfact said:

The MEA will remove all unused communications cables and make it mandatory for communications operators to rearrange their wires by labelling them and putting them into holders prepared by the MEA, Thirawat said.

This is a strange state of affairs. The MEA will remove communication cables which do not belong to them. Why not make the comms. companies do this. Labeling the cables should be mandatory both for comms. and for power. I wondered about the holders also. Perhaps the cables are being placed in concrete gullies and the holders are brackets mounted on the side walls.

 

I'm not familiar with the actual techniques used by MEA so perhaps someone else who has seen the works can elaborate.