Bangkok to be free of hanging wires by 2021!

 

 

Bangkok governor Pol Gen Asawin Khwanmuang has told the Thai media that he expects the capital to be free of the infamous hanging wires on its main and subsidiary roads by as soon as 2021.

 

General Asawin told Daily News that he expects private media and telecommunication companies to foot the massive bill - somewhere in the region of 20,000 million baht.

 

He said that there were 2,700 kms of main and secondary roads out of the total of 5,000 kms of road space in the capital.

 

This 2,700 kms would be split up into 4 autonomous zones of about 700 kms each to speed up the burying process.

 

The total cost would be about 5 or 6 million baht per kilometer.

 

Tenders for the work would be sorted out at the end of this year with no state money being used.

 

It all sounded remarkably simple and could mean an end to the eyesores seen all over Bangkok that prompted Microsoft founder Bill Gates to comment on the issue in 2016 when he took put his holiday snaps of the wires near his hotel online.

 

That prompted the military government to speed up some work on the main roads in the capital as well as in other Thai cities such as Pattaya and Chiang Mai.

 

Thaivisa notes that the capital's residents will be waiting to see the substance of the governor's claims and what might be the consequences for traffic and pedestrian congestion if and when the work gets into full swing.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-09-12

But I hope afterwards they leave the posts in place for people to scramble up every time it floods

The only way this will happen is if the military stay in power.....

 

 

 

 

Oh bugger.

Maybe in 2121!

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by Tom1959

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bangkok to be free of hanging wires by 2021!

April 1st news 

Someone’s math is way off.

Watch this space; when it gets to 2021 the goalposts will have been moved back about 20 years !

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Bangkok to be free of hanging wires by 2021!

Yes, and Santa Claus will slide down the chimney on Christmas Eve... ?

6 hours ago, Tom1959 said:

Maybe in 2121!

The first line if that 1968 song seems quite relevant now:

In the year 2525, if man is still alive. If woman can survive...

 

Mmmm. First thing that came to mind.

I suspect the majority of comm's will be wireless by then with major optics routes to *9G Wifi relay stations

 

(*or whatever G we're on by then).... 

 

The routing of major power cables may be an issue, but they refer to comms cables which is far from being one of bangkok's eclectic charms. 

 

Anything is possible with the removal of corruption.. this is readily achievable... erm... 

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by richard_smith237

2021.  Yeah Right.   Did Bill gates drive through on his way to Nana?

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by The Deerhunter

Failed again. It is now....

 

Reported post removed

16 hours ago, Esso49 said:

But I hope afterwards they leave the posts in place for people to scramble up every time it floods

Or as targets for the sleepy drivers!

Which news would you rather believe?

 

Bangkok to be free of hanging wires by 2021!

 

Bangkok, heavy snow storms expected for X-mas 2018!

And if the unicorns hadn’t been late for the ark, John Wayne would have maybe had another useable weapon to fight bad guys.

19 hours ago, webfact said:

somewhere in the region of 20,000 million baht.

2,700 km

The total cost would be about 5 or 6 million baht per kilometer.

... and the extra 4 billion baht (a fifth of the estimate) is going to charity...

Yeah sure!

19 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

The only way this will happen is if the military stay in power.....

 

 

 

 

Oh bugger.

The Military are ALWAYS IN POWER. From 1932 onward..They allow elections so as to look like a more democratic country.

Well some parts of Bangkok are wire free already, but by 2021? Perhaps folks in charge don't know how big bangkok really is. Sukhumvit is not exactly the entire bangkok is it?

I would bet that this could never happen by then if ever 

20 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

The only way this will happen is if the military stay in power.....

 

 

 

 

Oh bugger.

Yes, indeed.

I also wonder what will happen to all the infrastructure projects that are needed.

Not the HSL, of course...

 

 

 

One elite city down -- the rest of the low-so country to go. 

Heard that before

Are they planning to change the name to something other than Bangkok?

Riiiiiiiight 

Great news.....a lot less flying pigs getting hurt hitting the wires!