Another foul-up by a large construction company? News today.

[cliveshep]

My wife listens to and reads news that not being a Thai speaker or reader I don't get to see. Apparently today on Ramkhamhaeng in Bkk another large lump of concrete fell off the overhead railway. No one was hurt and no vehicle damaged which was a mercy.

 

Seems like hardly a week goes by without something heavy coming adrift from one of those railways in the sky, be it bridge beams, kilometers of rail, train wheels, falling cranes - the list over the years seems endless.

 

When are the relevant authorities going to wake up and 'smell the coffee' and get to grips with construction's appalling safety record. indeed with construction safety generally because quite often it is members of the public who get killed and injured as well as workers? The Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) has reported over 2,500 construction-related incidents on Rama II Road since 2019. I do not think worker injuries are counted, these figures seem to refer to more major things than slips, trips or falls to workers but to incidents involving heavy plant and heavy objects, like liquid concrete falling onto a passing car and injuring a child or beams falling etc.

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

be it bridge beams, kilometers of rail, train wheels, falling cranes - the list over the years seems endless

"Kms of rails" have never fallen, there was one wheel that detached due to a faulty bearing from the manufacturer, nothing to do with any construction company.  The list is not endless, you've exhausted it already.  

[cliveshep]

On 6/23/2025 at 11:27 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

"Kms of rails" have never fallen, there was one wheel that detached due to a faulty bearing from the manufacturer, nothing to do with any construction company.  The list is not endless, you've exhausted it already.  

You are right. 300m of rail fell damaging 3 cars on Christmas Eve 2023 in Nonthaburi. Bangkok Post reported it here: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2711978/pink-line-conductor-rail-collapses-in-nonthaburi 

 

So who did not fix this rail that fell off? Fairies? Of course it was the construction crew, or do you have another culprit? Where were you on Dec. 34, 2023?

[Ralf001]

7 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

You are right. 300m of rail fell damaging 3 cars on Christmas Eve 2023 in Nonthaburi. Bangkok Post reported it here: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2711978/pink-line-conductor-rail-collapses-in-nonthaburi 

 

So who did not fix this rail that fell off? Fairies? Of course it was the construction crew, or do you have another culprit? Where were you on Dec. 34, 2023?

 

300m of conductor rail falling is not same as KM's or rail falling !

[cliveshep]

7 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

300m of conductor rail falling is not same as KM's or rail falling !

True and as I said to the other guy you are right. Ok now? I mis-spoke from faulty memory although I'm pretty sure one article I read a year or more ago did mention rail in the order of kms long but the article I quoted does say only 300m although that is more than enough.

 

And I did not mis-speak - here is the original article clearly saying 5km of rail fell off:  

 Line conductor rail collapses in Nonthaburi

 

Bangkok Post

https://www.bangkokpost.com › Thailand › General

 

 

Dec 24, 2566 BE — A 5km stretch of the metal rail fell from the elevated structure of the Pink Line from Chon Prathan market to Khae Rai intersection.

 

So - would you like to apologise now?

[Ralf001]

4 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

True and as I said to the other guy you are right. Ok now? I mis-spoke from faulty memory although I'm pretty sure one article I read a year or more ago did mention rail in the order of kms long but the article I quoted does say only 300m although that is more than enough.

 

And I did not mis-speak - here is the original article clearly saying 5km of rail fell off:  

 Line conductor rail collapses in Nonthaburi

 

Bangkok Post

https://www.bangkokpost.com › Thailand › General

 

 

Dec 24, 2566 BE — A 5km stretch of the metal rail fell from the elevated structure of the Pink Line from Chon Prathan market to Khae Rai intersection.

 

Why flip flop your sooking.. you posted 300m.

[cliveshep]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Why flip flop your sooking.. you posted 300m.

WTH is a 'sooking'. And no flip-flop, dopy,  I was correct from the Bangkok Post's 2 articles, even if one of them was wrong. So it was 300m, but according to another BP article it was 5km. And I remember clearly the first published story was 5km, not 300m which they presumably published later as a correction.