Road to nowhere in Thailand’s Yasothon is an embankment resembling a road

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The mysterious asphalted road running to nowhere through a rice field in Maha Chaichana district of the north-eastern province of Yasothon, which has been the subject of an investigation by the local office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft, is apparently just an embankment, not a road.

 

Over the past weekend, the provincial NACC chief visited the site and questioned representatives of the local Rural Roads Department, the provincial irrigation office and the Fa Yad sub-district (Tambon) Administrative Organization. They all maintained that they knew nothing about it.

 

After several days of head scratching and denials from local authorities, officials from the Ubon Ratchathani-based irrigation projects went to Yasothon on Monday to explain the matter to the NACC office.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/road-to-nowhere-in-thailands-yasothon-is-an-embankment-resembling-a-road/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-30

 

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[keith101]

LOL it definitely looks like a road and probable graft .

[Elkski]

Follow the money.  In this case who owns that land with a road and electric? 

[DrMJA]

Nothing slips past these Sherlocks:

“National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft” 

 

[happydays]

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Two Pheu Thai MPs, Piyawat Pansaichua and Boonkaew Somwong, said that they will submit an interpellation to parliament to ask the government about the project.

I must admit I had to Google that, nice to learn something new ????

[worgeordie]

Could be an Alien landing strip .......anything is possible in Thailand  and

is a good excuse as any' that those that built it come up with

for such a waste of money, 

regards worgeordie

[Chang_paarp]

Good to see they have started to asphalt and lane mark the embankments. Now they have done their practice they can put the learned skills to work on all the roads that need repairing in Yasothon.

[tomazbodner]

It's the road to rocket launchpad of the Thailand Space Program

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Over the past weekend, the provincial NACC chief visited the site and questioned representatives of the local Rural Roads Department, the provincial irrigation office and the Fa Yad sub-district (Tambon) Administrative Organization. They all maintained that they knew nothing about it.

 

[TKDfella]

Do embankments have central yellows lines then?

[GreasyFingers]

If the puu yai said he knew nothing about it  "The village head said that he had not been informed by any agency about the road project, but admitted he saw some workers building the road about three months ago." he must have been in on the graft.

The puu yai knows everything that goes on in a village.

[Scott Tracy]

Solar lights affecting the rice crops, no water in the irrigation canal. 2km long 'embankment'...

 

Blimey. How do else lights affect rice crops, do they make the crop grow at night?

It doesn't look like there needs to water in the irrigation canal, plenty of water in the fields. Rice is cut now, anyway.

Nobody knows how a 2km long road was built, along an embankment? Dang, someone do that here. Just dirt and mud on the way to the wife's 3 rai of empty fields.

 

Ps... How was the picture taken? Drone?

[Elkski]

So I'm there is a government rubber buying program .  Like the rice scandal.  Experimental road construction method?  Just imagine how much graft on a space program?  Many salivating at the mere thought.  I hope the idea 9f the space program popping up at this time tells the voters what they need to know. 

[Andycoops]

15 hours ago, TKDfella said:

Do embankments have central yellows lines then?

And also white stripes along the side?

I live near Yasothon and all surfaces with those markings are roads.

[brianthainess]

18 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

It's the road to rocket launchpad of the Thailand Space Program

Do you mean The Rocket Launchpaddy ?    (The local youths use it for M/C racing they said.)

[mrloy99]

Looks like the famine roads that the English built in Ireland.,..during the great potato famine. stipulation being that they are ecenomically useless...built to give the locals some little income during the times of crisis.

 

[Damrongsak]

On 11/30/2021 at 5:21 AM, Scott Tracy said:

Solar lights affecting the rice crops, no water in the irrigation canal. 2km long 'embankment'...

 

Blimey. How do else lights affect rice crops, do they make the crop grow at night? ...

 

If the light is intense enough it can have negative effects.

 

Minimizing nightlight pollution effects on rice   https://www.tari.gov.tw/english/form/index-1.asp?Parser=20,15,926,81,,,3009

 

 

[The Hammer2021]

On 12/1/2021 at 12:09 PM, mrloy99 said:

Looks like the famine roads that the English built in Ireland.,..during the great potato famine. stipulation being that they are ecenomically useless...built to give the locals some little income during the times of crisis.

 

Why didn't the people eat fish during the potato famine?

[Boyn]

If nothing else the things that go on in Thailand are damn entertaining

[RJRS1301]

On 11/30/2021 at 4:37 PM, DrMJA said:

Nothing slips past these Sherlocks:

“National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft” 

 

They "watch" everthing