Pattaya: D-Day for the Walking Street cable burying - dignitaries all staring down a big hole!

[webfact]

Pattaya: D-Day for the Walking Street cable burying - dignitaries all staring down a big hole!

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Everyone who is anyone was in Walking Street yesterday morning to celebrate the begininning of the beautification of Walking Street.

 

The dignitaries led by the mayor of Pattaya Sontaya Khunpluem were pictured staring into the abyss - a large hole where the cables will go that are being buried. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Pattaya Update News and Sophon Cable TV reporters were there to mark the big occasion. 

 

P.U.N. said that 11,668 million baht was being spent on several major cities to bury cables; this includes Pattaya and Chiang Mai. Investment is from the PEA and loans from outside the country.

 

Work in Walking Street is costing 103 million baht and will last until next January 8th. 

 

Picture: Pattaya Update News

 

Both news media published descriptions of the technical aspects of the dig and burying of the cables. 

 

Mayor Sontaya has said that Walking Street will be beautiful as a result. 

 

Online people have been mocking this suggestion likening it to putting lipstick on a pig. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

But there are many other plans up the mayor's sleeve for the beautification of the area that looks set to see a major makeover in the coming years as part of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) drive. 

 

Sources: Sophon Cable TV | Pattaya Update News

 

 

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[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Online people have been mocking this suggestion likening it to putting lipstick on a pig.

@Thaiwrath - fame at last!

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Both news media published descriptions of the technical aspects of the dig and burying of the cables

It still would be good to know what these 'boxes every sixteen metres' are needed for. No answers so far.

[jacko45k]

Jeez.... forget Pinups, I don't want to end up in that!

[redwood1]

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

 

 

It still would be good to know what these 'boxes every sixteen metres' are needed for. No answers so far.

I agree.....A few boxes fair enough......But every 16 meters?

[transam]

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

@Thaiwrath - fame at last!

 

It still would be good to know what these 'boxes every sixteen metres' are needed for. No answers so far.

Think it's for divers access....????

 

[Justgrazing]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

dignitaries led by the mayor of Pattaya Sontaya Khunpluem were pictured staring into the abyss - a large hole where the cables will go that are being buried

 

Holy smoke .. who'd have thought that , a big hole needing filling in Patt's ..

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Think it's for divers access....????

 

Most practical suggestion so far.

[Ireland32]

I just drove down it , metal plates covering now , then a policeman on a motorbike came out of no - where pulls over motorbike for No Helmet 2 Asians 

[PETERTHEEATER]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Work in Walking Street is costing 103 million baht and will last until next January 8th. 

Next year?

[Destiny1990]

Weird i was expecting bulldozers instead of a ceremony.

[NCC1701A]

"We cover this like an animal trap and after the tourists falls in we charge them 1000 baht each to pull them out. What do you think?" 

 

[kingofthemountain]

8 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Next year?

Yes, for some reasons this work is supposed to take 360 days

it's crazy isn't it?

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/02/02/underground-cable-project-kicks-off-on-pattaya-walking-street-expected-to-take-one-year/

[kingofthemountain]

''Pattaya: D-Day for the Walking Street cable burying - dignitaries all staring down a big hole!''  

Just reading the big title i was expecting something like a private show involving a ladyboy

or something like that, a little bit disapointed with this one

[Cake Monster]

Who would have thought that a hole like this could waste so much time .

Surely, these important people have better things to do than just stare at an orifice.

 

[Pilotman]

there has always  been a lot of holes in Walking street. 

[Benmart]

32 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

Who would have thought that a hole like this could waste so much time .

Surely, these important people have better things to do than just stare at an orifice.

 

I agree. They could spend time walking on the foot paths to gauge the deplorable condition of same, complete with hanging wires and crumbling cutouts for wheelchairs. Another photo opportunity.

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Everyone who is anyone was in Walking Street yesterday morning to celebrate the begininning of the beautification of Walking Street.

How to make a hole beautiful.... one wonders?

[Burma Bill]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

were pictured staring into the abyss

 

Shall we call in Dyno-Rod???

 

 

[thailand49]

It started out as a ceremony but take a better look at their faces, I've seen the look before when a hole was made to do work, it was putting drains on Siam Country Club road, same with the drains being put in along the road next to the Railroad tracks on the Darkside.

 

What you see with that hole a lot more work got to be done since the hole is fill with water that is what is under Walking Street, a river of its own, get the scuba gear out!

 

You got to love the planning?  They have been talking about this for some time while the pandemic and the economy shut down they had plenty of time to start the work. Since July the clubs opening and doing their best to survive under the pandemic then the second closure. I went down last night they had the entrance block off work light on so I came in from 2nd Road, only two clubs were opened Windmill and Tantra, Pin Up top club prior closed!  What timing! if the pandemic didn't kill the clubs this will!

Edited February 2, 2021 by thailand49

[adammike]

8 hours ago, bluesofa said:

@Thaiwrath - fame at last!

 

It still would be good to know what these 'boxes every sixteen metres' are needed for. No answers so far.

Junction boxes?

[TKDfella]

Ha! reminds me of;

 

[scammed]

this is an amazing progress and i hope the usual culprits dont get on here just to smear this fine city

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, adammike said:

8 hours ago, bluesofa said:

It still would be good to know what these 'boxes every sixteen metres' are needed for. No answers so far.

Junction boxes?

Sorry to be abrupt, but junction boxes for what?

I'm still looking for a reasonable technical answer. To cross-connect the PEA main supply feeding customers?

For what reason is that necessary?

 

Other countries (this isn't a side-track) can do it by teeing into the (PEA) supply and feeding to each building as the supply goes past it. It also copes with heavy rain and flooding, so that's not special to Thailand.

The tee is buried outside each premises. Some places may have a small 'box' flush in the ground per building, for maintenance access.

 

If the PEA are doing it to cross-connect to customers, then it defies the point of having the supply underground, as half the system is still above ground with these boxes. All that's happened is the 'rats nest 'of overhead mains cables has been replaced by big boxes every sixteen metres.

[bbbbooboo]

Hmmm......"Online people have been mocking this suggestion likening it to putting lipstick on a pig". What more can be said?

[bluesofa]

41 minutes ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmm......"Online people have been mocking this suggestion likening it to putting lipstick on a pig". What more can be said?

I'd question the shade of the lipstick.

[Hayduke]

 

Thai Tourism Laid to Rest

 

 

After a long and cruel struggle against stupidity, greed and xenophobia, Thai tourism has been removed from life support and formally declared deceased.

 

Tourism was buried today in its Pattaya home in a simple ceremony attended by close friends and family.

 

TAT is requesting cash donations in lieu of flowers.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3, 2021 by Hayduke

[jacko45k]

13 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I'm still looking for a reasonable technical answer. To cross-connect the PEA main supply feeding customers?

For what reason is that necessary?

To be able to isolate the feeders to subsections of the network , ie one box allowing several buildings to be powered and isolated and having limit protection. If there is a fault on the street the ability to isolate subsections helps in the location and repair. (Providing there isn't  large smoke plume or fire doing that job for you). 

[jacko45k]

5 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I'd question the shade of the lipstick.

A nice bandana or hat may help! How about a few tats, seems to attract a particular type.....

Edited February 3, 2021 by jacko45k

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

To be able to isolate the feeders to subsections of the network , ie one box allowing several buildings to be powered and isolated and having limit protection. If there is a fault on the street the ability to isolate subsections helps in the location and repair. (Providing there isn't  large smoke plume or fire doing that job for you). 

Thanks, an answer at last.

My background is telecoms, not electrics but I know in the UK there are none of these.

From a ductwork point of view there aren't large distribution access points in the ground for example, being involved in the ductwork for telecoms. For the electrics, each premises is fed by teeing off underground from the main supply.

How can other places do this without these intrusive cabinets? What happens if there is a similar fault condition, or is the chance much rarer elsewhere for example?

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Thanks, an answer at last.

Just taking a stab at it..... 

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My background is telecoms, not electrics but I know in the UK there are none of these.

In the UK there are substation buildings, usually garage to small house size, fenced off with waring signs where all this can be done. there is usually a transformer outside too. 

Edited February 3, 2021 by jacko45k