By Online Reporter

 

All overhead cables in Bangkok will be buried underground within the next three years, it has been revealed.

 

According to Palang Pracharath Party MP Korranit Ngamsukonratana, who chairs the sub-committee on the organisation of electrical cables, work will be begin later this year to bury almost 1,400 kilometres of cables in the capital.

 

Some 456 kilometres of cables will be buried underground this year, while the remaining 936 kilometres of cables will be moved underground by 2025.

 

Ms Korranit said all relevant agencies including the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Metropolitan Electricity Authority and National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission will work together to ensure the work is completed.

 

Full story: https://www.huahintoday.com/thailand-news/bangkok-to-bury-all-overhead-cables-underground-within-3-years/

 

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There's going to be a right mess , and I don't believe it .

regards Worgeordie

Yes and they will be replaced every year after floods!!

Don't they make this same statement every three years?

Great.

 

Despite traffic getting worse for the next 3 years this will be a good thing.

That is going to make fixing your broken wifi connection much more difficult.

Never mind the disruption to traffic. Foot and vehicle.

Not even physically possible in that time frame with the best will in the world . I remember when they buried the fiber optic cables at home about 20 years ago. Even very short sections of road took months and months. So much down there already to navigate with sewers and water pipes.

A monumental task , and when and if accomplished constantly having to dig it up for repairs and upgrades. 

  We will see. 

Can just imagine this underground.

 

Just did a quick check using Google Earth, I picked 2 x 1 square km areas in central Bangkok and measured the roads. There was an average of about 200 km of roads/sois (15 north-south and 15 east west) in each square kilometer. So 1400 km over a 3 year period they will only cover a small amount of the greater Bangkok area and then the tech companies will be hanging the cables up faster than they bury them.

 

All I can say is BS. IMHO, will not happen any time soon.

 

 

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

That is going to make fixing your broken wifi connection much more difficult.

Never mind the disruption to traffic. Foot and vehicle.

Well firstly it will make cables much less susceptible to damage in the first place and also any wise digital provider will install a goodly amount of redundancy in the form of extra connections so that it's just a matter switching to a new route.

 

And, of course it's not your problem anyway, is it.

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

Can just imagine this underground.

 

Much of that is probably redundant anyway. Cable TV, new line. Digital TV, new line, Internet provider, new line. Another internet provider, yet another new line. And so on and so on. And no one comes along and removes the old, unused ones.

 

This should be a great opportunity for all the providers to come together and create a digital super highway and generally tidy up the whole network.

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

any wise digital provider will install a goodly amount of redundancy

Therein lies the flaw in the logic.

History shows us that they will worry about tomorrow's problems - tomorrow.

 

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

And, of course it's not your problem anyway, is it.

It would be if I used a Thai provider and my wifi is down.

However, I use a private business provider.

All underground cables on private land.

In August 2019, the authorities started work to bury cables along the 2.5 km of beach road in Patong, Phuket. After 2 1/2 years, this month they finally finished by painting crosswalks and other lines on the road. 

 

I'm thinking that burying 1,400 km in 3 years will only happen in someone's dreams. 

A better headline might be....

 

Bangkok to bury all currently existing overhead cables underground within 3 years, to make space for lots of new overhead cables

5 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Can just imagine this underground.

 

That's a fine mess we've gotta bury Stanley"... 

If there was a hint of the task being outsourced then I'd say maybe possible good luck however Somchai with a set of wire cutters and a shovel doesn't inspire me with confidence, god forbid a JCB enters the fray lol ???????? 

19 minutes ago, Dont confuse me said:

If there was a hint of the task being outsourced then I'd say maybe possible good luck however Somchai with a set of wire cutters and a shovel doesn't inspire me with confidence, god forbid a JCB enters the fray lol ???????? 

Hilarious.  Large parts of Bangkok have been done already and it has made a huge difference.  And they have done it very professionally.  But don't let that stop your cheap Somchai jibes.

 

7 hours ago, DezLez said:

Don't they make this same statement every three years?

Yes. I'm wondering if they will sort these cables/totally remove all the excess and then put it underground, or?

 

Further, are the trenches or whatever being dug, lined, filled etc., according to a specific global specification, and are they flood proof? And are records being kept for the future so that the location of old cables/placement of old cbles is documented and easily accessible?

1 minute ago, scorecard said:

Yes. I'm wondering if they will sort these cables/totally remove all the excess and then put it underground, or?

 

Further, are the trenches or whatever being dug, lined, filled etc., according to a specific global specification, and are they flood proof? And are records being kept for the future so that the location of old cables/placement of old cbles is documented and easily accessible?

Have a look at the post above this.  

Spot Joke of the year “;0)

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

Hilarious.  Large parts of Bangkok have been done already and it has made a huge difference.  And they have done it very professionally.  But don't let that stop your cheap Somchai jibes.

 

Wow, can you show us on a map where?

25 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Have a look at the post above this.  

Thanks, seen this before, I'd like to see some evidence this is really under Bangkok. 

 

Given what I've watched them do in Chiang Mai (not Bangkok), I don't believe it. 

8 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Can just imagine this underground.

 

Off topic. No pictures of the Cutty Sark's rigging please......????

"chairs the sub-committee on the organisation of electrical cables"

 

lucky that they already have such a subcommittee - that will save 3 years.

 

I note the words "electrical cables"  and I suspect there may be a get-out clause in this.......  if they only bury electrical cables and leave all the data cables for somebody else.....

11 hours ago, webfact said:

All overhead cables in Bangkok will be buried underground within the next three years, it has been revealed.

Let me go on the record "revealing" that I very much doubt it!

 

I've read far too many nonsensical announcements like this one before, and if anything, they've added MORE wires wherever I look.

6 hours ago, scorecard said:

Thanks, seen this before, I'd like to see some evidence this is really under Bangkok. 

 

Given what I've watched them do in Chiang Mai (not Bangkok), I don't believe it. 

Ok, I can't prove it.   Maybe it is under Phnom Penh, I haven't been underground to take my own pictures, sorry. So can I ask you where you think it is?  I am all ears. 

Bangkok is a massive city with huge infrastructure and there are pictures of the tunnels to house electrical and other cables.  Why wouldn't I believe them?  Where do you think they are?

6 hours ago, berrec said:

Wow, can you show us on a map where?

No, sorry, I don't think there is such a map - I don't have one anyway.

 

Bangkok to bury all overhead cables underground within 3 years

 

not. a. chance.

 

Sure they will, and there is a high speed train to China opening in a couple of years also.

So much progress.