Loose road plate sparks accident fears

 

PATTAYA:--Pattaya motorists say a damaged steel plate has created a traffic hazard on Central Road.

 

Motorists complained Nov. 18 that the plate, laid by the Provincial Electricity Authority to cover a hole where power lines are being buried, is loose and not flush with the road.

 

Both conditions are perilous, particularly to motorcyclists, they said.

 

Drivers urged the PEA or Pattaya to quickly remedy the problem.

 

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-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-11-24--

This won't be fixed until after the first or second serious accident.

I believe I rode over it a few days ago and it gave out quite a 'clang' as it moved. Very worrying, I might have dropped into a deep hole!

Its a manhole cover

Road plate? Looks exactly like a man hole cover. ????

21 hours ago, mikebell said:

This won't be fixed until after the first or second serious accident.

Optimist!

22 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Loose road plate

Or  stolen and sold to a scrap dealer like the guy who stole bolts that fix the rails on their sleepers on the side of Hua Hin a few months ago ?

1 hour ago, mickey rat said:

Road plate? Looks exactly like a man hole cover. ????

Come on, we have to be politically correct these days. It's a PERSON HOLE COVER!

4 hours ago, mickey rat said:

Road plate? Looks exactly like a man hole cover. ????

A Person hole cover.???? 

Another 1,532,373 I'll fitting manhole covers & wobbly broken drain covers now feel particularly left out...

 

Drains capital wide pooling together to get the recognition of 'death trap' they truly deserve... 

I drove past this row of new manhole covers the other day, I don't think it is anyting to do with the cast iron cover but more to do with the square pre cast cast concrete slab that they put over the exisitng hole. The slab stands 2 two inches proud above the road surface and is an absolute death trap for a motorbike, wouldn't do a car much good either.

4 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Come on, we have to be politically correct these days. It's a PERSON HOLE COVER!

It has to be called a "man hole cover" as there is only one hole. 

On 11/24/2019 at 10:27 AM, Rimmer said:

Motorists complained Nov. 18 that the plate, laid by the Provincial Electricity Authority to cover a hole where power lines are being buried, is loose and not flush with the road.

Are they ever?

18 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The slab stands 2 two inches proud above the road surface and is an absolute death trap for a motorbike, wouldn't do a car much good either.

Nearly every road in Pattaya provides the bike rider with a drum beat of thump thump thump from proud covers of one type or another, exactly where you don't want them to be in the road. When a road is resurfaced it becomes a dip!