Locals in central Thailand in knots over hanging wires

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Furious locals called in the Thai media after constant trouble caused by a mish-mash of unsightly wires. 

 

Forget the Hanging Gardens of Babylon these were another wonder of the "modern" world - The Hanging Wires of Ang Thong. 

 

The media reported that PM Prayuth's cabinet was supposed to be tackling the issue.

 

But only some places in Bangkok, Pattaya and other main cities and main roads had received the multi billion baht spending to make Thailand beautiful again. 

 

The issue was raised in 2016 when none other than Bill Gates spurred the Thai government into action with some damning holiday snaps from his hotel window. 

 

But Ang Thong in central Thailand has been largely forgotten.

 

Now the locals want something done before there is more damage caused by the tangled cables and electrical wires, reported Sanook.

 

Fires have been a perennial problem there.

 

Over the years since Big Bill posted there have been countless tales of the Hanging Wires of Thailand, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

Apart from fires, people have been electrocuted in the street or strangled when passing on motorcycles. 

 

Sometimes high trucks bring the whole lot crashing down. 

 

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[Will B Good]

The cost of putting these underground must be staggering......or is it just a matter of tidying up what is above ground???

[Geoffggi]

I believe the relevant question would be how many of these wires are currently in use, as we all know the Thai practice of install a new wire and to hell with tracing problems with old wires .....

[userabcd]

12 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

The cost of putting these underground must be staggering......or is it just a matter of tidying up what is above ground???

The easiest and cheapest is to probably lay new in the ground and recover the overhead scrap for recycling.

 

This was the way they did it along Sukhumvit road.

[Led Lolly Yellow Lolly]

We have our own private power grid that stretches around 2 kilometres. I have my own 6 core fibre private LAN hanging from it. I'm really anally retentive about taking care of it. If some idiot from an internet company comes to string their own cables, I'll cut them down. They keep coming, I keep cutting them down. Eventually the penny drops and they realise it's not a public road and they need to come and ask me first. . .

 

I'm reasonable, I tell them they can hang their cables on the condition they follow my rules because I don't want my poles turning into the same spaghetti soup that's on public roads, and I don't want my cables damaging. I give them these (the Thai version) to make it easy for them. . .

 

I also make them agree to take down any abandoned cables.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

12 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

The cost of putting these underground must be staggering......or is it just a matter of tidying up what is above ground???

Long time ago I worked for a software company which developed software for refineries. It seems many refineries have so many pipes that basically nobody knows anymore which of these pipes are (sometimes) used and which not. So if they need a new pipe they don't even try to look if they can reuse and existing pipe. Because nobody wants to be responsible for reusing the wrong pipe.

I guess with Thai electric wires the principle is the same.

[RayWright]

Remember back in 2005 when BT were restructuring and creating OpenReach, the Market value for BT was less than the actual asset value if the company. In that if you bought it outright you could have nearly doubled your money by selling off all the redundant copper cable that was lying around in exchanges,  ditches and buildings. There's money in those wires.

[Will B Good]

23 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Long time ago I worked for a software company which developed software for refineries. It seems many refineries have so many pipes that basically nobody knows anymore which of these pipes are (sometimes) used and which not. So if they need a new pipe they don't even try to look if they can reuse and existing pipe. Because nobody wants to be responsible for reusing the wrong pipe.

I guess with Thai electric wires the principle is the same.

Wife, who knows everything and is never wrong, has just confirmed the above......cheers.

[khunPer]

The photo looks very familiar, I presume many wire-post originates from the same family...

[Gottfrid]

That´s the work of a professional Thai electrician. No wonder I do it all by myself.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

The cost of putting these underground must be staggering......or is it just a matter of tidying up what is above ground???

I presume you're talking about the "wires" above ground.. ?

[Will B Good]

Just now, hotchilli said:

I presume you're talking about the "wires" above ground.. ?

Yes....people on here have explained to me now......most of what you see is redundant wiring and the whole mess just needs stripping away.

[hotchilli]

1 minute ago, Will B Good said:

Yes....people on here have explained to me now......most of what you see is redundant wiring and the whole mess just needs stripping away.

One word from Russell Crowe would have had this all sorted out.

[JeffersLos]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

unsightly

Put a box around it.

 

Problem solved. 

[Almer]

5 hours ago, Will B Good said:

The cost of putting these underground must be staggering......or is it just a matter of tidying up what is above ground???

In 5 years I have had 3 providers each time a new cable slung to the 1000’s that are already  there and surplus

[Almer]

5 hours ago, RayWright said:

Remember back in 2005 when BT were restructuring and creating OpenReach, the Market value for BT was less than the actual asset value if the company. In that if you bought it outright you could have nearly doubled your money by selling off all the redundant copper cable that was lying around in exchanges,  ditches and buildings. There's money in those wires.

If a thai reads your post the Internet will be down by the morning

[MrJ2U]

10 hours ago, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said:

We have our own private power grid that stretches around 2 kilometres

Thats impressive.

That must have cost a bundle!

 

Don't they ever inquire who's cutting there wires?

 

Good for you.

You gotta have good internet these days!

[Led Lolly Yellow Lolly]

6 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Don't they ever inquire who's cutting there wires?

Of course. I tell them I did it.

 

6 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

That must have cost a bundle!

Actually the Crown Property Bureau paid for it. I've no idea how much it cost but it would have been very expensive. It also has multiple transformers. I'm responsible for it.

 

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You gotta have good internet these days!

Right. It's business critical for me. I have a microwave backup link in case someone cuts the line.