Urgent works to start after officials humiliated online over Phuket Town roads

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Urgent works to start after officials humiliated online over Phuket Town roads

By Waranya Prompinpiras

 

Emergency repairs will start tonight (Apr 5) after a public backlash spurred by the series of photos posted online. Photo: Thawat Chaisalee

 

PHUKET: Emergency temporary repairs to roads in Phuket Town will begin tonight after local officials suffered a heavy public backlash spurred by a series of comical alter images posted online yesterday (Apr 4).

 

The photos, posted online by Phuket Town resident Thawat Chaisalee, showed large tracts of ugly and dangerous sections of unsurfaced road along the sides of Rassada Rd and Phang Nga Rd.

 

“Let pictures tell the story. I just wanted to show how the Phuket Government does its work,” Mr Thawat told The Phuket News.

Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/urgent-works-to-start-after-officials-humiliated-online-over-phuket-town-roads-70980.php#sJ4rjGqdVJLb4kBW.99

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-04-05

 

[ChipButty]

Thats him off to the attitude adjustment centre 

[hansgruber]

Shame them to fix it. Thais are learning. Well done. 

[300sd]

"We just don't care", raises it's ugly head so often.

[observer90210]

Reaction only after shamed online ? ??  Is this the miracle mantra to solve the pollution crisis or the annual flooding crisis or any other social issues?

[Cake Monster]

Must have also added some Armour Piercing comments to get through the thick skin of a Thai Official.

[Valentine]

Happens all over the island. Some works are done such as laying new pipe then the side of teh road or some spot on the corner does not get properly resurfaced. For example there is a steel plate on the corner of Chao Fa West, next to the ex Honda dealer, which has been there for a couple of years. Probably covering some pothole. I could name many other corners that have potholes which you can't avoid let alone the storm drain covers that act like potholes because they are set several centimeters below the road surface

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20 minutes ago, Valentine said:

For example there is a steel plate on the corner of Chao Fa West, next to the ex Honda dealer, which has been there for a couple of years.

We have the same thing here in Patong, where in one particular case, a huge (possibly 2.5 m x 2 m) metal plate is welded across the top of some sort of drain and what with that and the metal from the drain being uneven, it presents one hell of risk to motorcyclists – – – – and believe it or not there is a similar welded plate about 80 m further along the road.

 

The state of many roads in Patong is abysmal and dangerous, so perhaps some photographs will do the trick there as well??

[Vacuum]

2 hours ago, Valentine said:

Some works are done such as laying new pipe then the side of teh road or some spot on the corner does not get properly resurfaced.

Perhaps they expected the pipe to leak in the near future...

[Richard Kuklinski]

Why wasn't the Facebook poster charged under The Computer Crimes Act?  ????