Songkran spruce up! Northern Thai road gets an upgrade to prevent collisions with trees

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that the highway authorities in Sankamphaeng, a district of Chiang Mai, were upgrading the Chiang Mai to Sankamphaeng Road to try and lower the number of collisions with the avenue's trees.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Brightly painted old metal oil drums have been put around the Jamjuree trees as part of the upgrade. Since then there have been no collisions.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

There are also more flashing lights to help motorists at night.

 

Crews were also out cutting overhanging branches.

 

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As well as tidying up foliage adjacent to the road and sweeping the dusty surfaces.

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

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Picture: Thai Rath

[proton]

Oil drums will be taken for scrap ????

[Wiggy]

So, if you’re speeding, texting, phoning, drunk, or otherwise incapacitated and you lose control of your vehicle you’ll miss the tree because there’s an oil drum next to it? ????

Idiocy. 

[Dante99]

1 hour ago, Wiggy said:

So, if you’re speeding, texting, phoning, drunk, or otherwise incapacitated and you lose control of your vehicle you’ll miss the tree because there’s an oil drum next to it? ????

Idiocy. 

The object was to lower the number of collisions with trees and the solution of putting oil drums around the trees will certainly do that simply because the collisions will be with oil drums not trees.  So yes you'll miss the tree and hit the drum.

[sqwakvfr]

So the first impact will be the oil drum? It is painted like a target.  A better idea might be plastic barrels filled with water.  Never mind the barrel and the water will be stolen. 

[hotchilli]

[Paul Henry]

I trust they will regularly breath test the trees to make sure they don't jump out infront of a vehicle.

[Wiggy]

49 minutes ago, Dante99 said:

The object was to lower the number of collisions with trees and the solution of putting oil drums around the trees will certainly do that simply because the collisions will be with oil drums not trees.  So yes you'll miss the tree and hit the drum.

Surely an empty oil drum will offer little to no protection from the tree. 

[Dante99]

4 hours ago, Wiggy said:

Surely an empty oil drum will offer little to no protection from the tree. 

First, who said the drums were going to be empty?

 

Second, the objective is protection for the tree not from the tree.  The tree is a totally passive participant in this.