One, two, three POINT! That's the culprit say angry villagers in Ang Thong

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Our picture today shows a group of Thai villagers pointing at the road.

 

But it is no laughing matter.

 

They say that many people have been killed on the Pho Thong to Sawaengha Road in Ang Thong due to the disgraceful state of the surface and the fact there is no street lighting.

 

Some thirty people turned up yesterday to get the media to help after complaints to the authorities fell on deaf ears.

 

Sanook said that there were potholes and subsidence along a 5 kilometer stretch of road that is a main artery between Suphanburi and Ang Thong provinces.

 

Phairot, 55, turned up with others to unveil placards and call for action saying that many people have died on the road in accidents recently.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-07-17

 

This is the best pointing I have seen for a long time.....Brilliant!

21 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

This is the best pointing I have seen for a long time.....Brilliant!

There's many roads worse than that to point at.

23 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

This is the best pointing I have seen for a long time.....Brilliant!

Even the road appears to be smiling at the effort.

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

There's many roads worse than that to point at.

Show me the pointers!

 

I must be missing something.

 

It looks like a normal Thai road to me.

 

So whats the point of this pointing, no money left Orbators mia noi has got it all.

As this happens in Ang Thong, the center of medieval hocus-pocus, I suspect they'll soon find and evil spirit to blame for it. While you're in the area be prepared for haze caused by burning incense, 24 hrs chanting over loudspeakers, smashed ceramic pots housing ghosts. 

Many have been killed but none of the villagers did anything. Pathetic.
Do they think so far that one day one of their relatives or beloved ones could die at this spot as well?

GREED comes to mind.  $$$$$ 

I'm shocked that no posters have any empathy for the poor villagers who want to see their road repaired.  The article already stated that the complaints of the villagers were ignored by the government.  

Their only alternative, as in so many others situations involving social injustice, is to have their plight made known on the internet, at the risk of being persecuted by those in power.

As with many things around the world, those without money and position, get ignored!

   About 2 months ago on the rural asphalt road near my home, dump trucks started hauling excavated dirt away from a new construction site. On the lane they hauled loaded, they caused at least 6 different sections of pavement to push up mounds of broken asphalt.  These areas only continued getting larger as the drivers drove around the damaged sections. In some of the sections, the mounds were more than 10" in height.  The side of the road they traveled empty was undamaged.  After about 1 month, the highway workers repaired the areas with new asphalt.  In less than 3 weeks 4 sections they repaired have failed from normal vehicle traffic, one section worst than before.   They'll be back and always seem to get it right the second time.

5 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Show me the pointers!

Have a tour all around Thailand like I have and then you get back to me.

10 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

There's many roads worse than that to point at.

Yes but what's the point .

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Have a tour all around Thailand like I have and then you get back to me.

I'm back...….tell me more!

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook said that there were potholes and subsidence 

Naturally. TiT. 

15 hours ago, barefootbangkok said:

I'm shocked that no posters have any empathy for the poor villagers who want to see their road repaired.

No really correct. Most posters are commenting because they do have empathy (maybe not in written form) and are making comments about the ineptness of the authorities and their contractors to do the work properly the first time.

 

And, as usual, no acceptance of responsibility for shoddy work done.

OK, you have made your point.!