Phuket MP raises concerns over hastily built, damage-prone Patong Hill Road

[webfact]

 

An MP representing Phuket District 2 announced his intention to raise a critical issue in Parliament regarding the hastily built road over the hills from Chalong to Patong.

 

Constructed last year following a landslide on Patong Hill, this road has since been met with concerns about its condition and cost-effectiveness.

 

The road, named Luang Phu Supha Road, was inspected by MP Chalermpong Saengdee yesterday, who highlighted the condition of the road that serves as a vital throughway connecting the island. He claimed the new road was already seriously damaged and hardly usable.

 

These issues are compounded by the road’s thin surface, measuring only two to three centimetres in thickness, and signs of potential slides on the right side of the road. The MP’s concerns centre around the cost-effectiveness of the road’s construction and the damage it has already sustained.

“For this, I will be submitting a question to Parliament to find a conclusion as quickly as possible.”

 

by Neill Fronde 

Picture courtesy of Chalermpong Saengdee

 

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[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He claimed the new road was already seriously damaged and hardly usable.

 

These issues are compounded by the road’s thin surface, measuring only two to three centimetres in thickness, and signs of potential slides on the right side of the road.

The price was right.

[Pique Dard]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The road, named Luang Phu Supha Road,

i've seen better!

[Tropposurfer]

I watched first hand this being 'built???!!!!' and its as shonky a job as one could possibly imagine with another road surface collapse or high-side cutting collapse just waiting for enough H2O to cause subsidence.

Stay tuned for the inevitable death toll. 

[smedly]

that road has always been a problem, it requires special expert engineering (not the mayors cousin) to build it properly

[roger101]

I remember a section of Sukhumvit Road in Pattaya that had repairs done on it multiple times  over the years until they finally paid a firm who did it properly.

Obviously they ran out of family doing the work and  had to use a proper construction firm instead.

[AhFarangJa]

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

The price was right.

I can hear the contractor boss counting it now........1 Baht for the road, 110,000 for me......1 Baht for the road, 110,000 for me......1 Baht for the road, 110,000 for me.....

[eisfeld]

It's one of the worst road constructions I've seen. Highly dangerous and guaranteed to collapse in the near to mid term. You can clearly see there were no efforts made to create a safe road. They just cut away from the mountain, put a thin layer of road surface on it and called it a day.

 

It's a road with steep incline too. Absolute safety hazard.

 

Not to mention the idea of creating a shortcut to Patong that starts at the water reservoir. One of the few places where many people can go to jog and exercise around the lake with little traffic. If traffic was to start because people want to use the shortcut then you can say goodbye to that nice workout area.

 

That plan was an exercise in how to come up with the worst idea in terms of traffic management. And once they managed to do that they went on to the next challenge of how to execute the construction in the worst possible way. Operation successful, patient dead.

 

Edited September 18, 2023 by eisfeld

[stevenl]

11 hours ago, smedly said:

that road has always been a problem, it requires special expert engineering (not the mayors cousin) to build it properly

Strange since the road was only build recently as an emergency measure after part of the main access collapsed.