Road Condition In Buriram

[jbecker]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

[feffejonsson]

I bet one local politician made a nice profit engaging this road construction company!!??

[JanAndersLarsson]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

Yes? And ?

[feffejonsson]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

Yes? And ?

Seems the frost hit hard last winter in the Huai Rat area!

Edited July 10, 2008 by feffejonsson

[Thaicoon]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

That road has been like that for two to three years and getting worse, when at my place our exit road is on the Buriram-Surin side, i use to exit on to the Huai rat road, as our village exit road is also in a bad state, not any more as hit one of them damm holes on my Fireblade one day and nearly came off. close shave

[binnsy]

The original post is correct but if he wants to see a real bad road i suggest that he takes the Huairat to Surin road it is unbelievable.I now the spot where the picture was taken by the OP and since i have been here 10 months it has been attended to on several occasions but all they do is sweep the pot hole and and some tarmac which is a joke because as soon as the rain comes ABRACADABARA its all wash away.

This is Thailand

[poshthai]

The government are useless at looking after buriram residents and i believe are racist towards them too.May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

Edited July 13, 2008 by poshthai

[Thaddeus]

May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

Now that remark is not just inaccurate, but it also does a great disservice to most of the locals I know. (if not all of them) kindly don't spread the word.

Edit, just read it again (first coffee time) do you mean the people that the people voted for...... still wrong.

Edited July 13, 2008 by Thaddeus

[Dave the Dude]

May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

Now that remark is not just inaccurate, but it also does a great disservice to most of the locals I know. (if not all of them) kindly don't spread the word.

Edit, just read it again (first coffee time) do you mean the people that the people voted for...... still wrong.

I'm confused too, Thad.

Very sureal line of thought. I had Sunday lunch in HotPot, is that relavent too?

Confused of Surin

[macb]

I agree with thaicoon:

The road has been like that for years, In 2007 the locals planted banana trees in the holes to bring it to the attention of the local council, it worked as the road was repaired: But the rains come and wash all the tarmac and gravel away;

The only time it was repaired properly was I believe in late 2006 or early 2007 when there was a Royal visit to the area.

[lampard10]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

That's a GOOD road in Surin

[tommyj4]

Take the main road that goes to Surin...quicker also

[TBWG]

The government are useless at looking after buriram residents and i believe are racist towards them too.May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

POL POT is that the name of the company that has the contract to fill in the holes?

TBWG

[Thaddeus]

The government are useless at looking after buriram residents and i believe are racist towards them too.May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

POL POT is that the name of the company that has the contract to fill in the holes?

TBWG

Nah, this is just an advert intro .... wait for the real launch of Pol Pot Noodles.

[Thaddeus]

Joke over.... the condition of the roads hereabouts is dire, nothing has been done about it apart from a few locals trying to fill in the holes with gravel and soil, and it's been like that for over two years.

[bergen]

The government are useless at looking after buriram residents and i believe are racist towards them too.May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

POL POT is that the name of the company that has the contract to fill in the holes?

TBWG

They were supposed to fill in the POT holes - instead the money has been used to POLish the local POliticians, which is not very POLite

[feffejonsson]

Some years ago I heard that the government was planning to turn the 214 road between Surin and Tha Tum into a four lane road. Does anyone know anything about this?

[asiaworld]

Great question, that was bugging me for a while now ! Since i drive many times to Surin & beyond from Bkk & the combination of GPS, good maps & desire of shortcuts took me throu a lot of rural roads in the area.. I think the answer lies with the local residents>NOT the government as i've noticed OP took the picutre in the small village residential area . And from my personal observations IMHO it's the villagers, that sabotage the rural roads by stealing the pavement from them (correct me if i'm wrong!) there's Very Little traffic, that uses those roads,so once built they should last for a loong time & they Do between the villages ! But once in the villages i think the locals do make holes in them & "peel off" the pavement (once i even caught them in action!) . So can any of the local residents clarify what exactly happends there .. i agree, that Buriram IS the province, where it happens the most ! bUT wHY ?!?

Edited July 16, 2008 by asiaworld

[mikethevigoman]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

looks superb compared to pattaya , ( ill post a pic later )

[Dave the Dude]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

looks superb compared to pattaya , ( ill post a pic later )

Cambodians dream of having good roads like this !

[TBWG]

Years have been passed by and roads are getting worse and worse

This photo is from road Buriram to Huai Rat

looks superb compared to pattaya , ( ill post a pic later )

Cambodians dream of having good roads like this !

Now they can blame it on Pol Pot

TBWG

[Cuban]

....I wish our hole was that luxurious, we was evicted from "our" hole in the road and had to go and live in a sewer, a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox on a smelly ledge in the main sewer. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the box, eat a crust of stale rice straw, go to work washing market drains for fourteen hours a day week in - week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Edited July 16, 2008 by Cuban

[TBWG]

....I wish our hole was that luxurious, we was evicted from "our" hole in the road and had to go and live in a sewer, a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox on a smelly ledge in the main sewer. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the box, eat a crust of stale rice straw, go to work washing market drains for fourteen hours a day week in - week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Ah! The good old days

TBWG

[Dave the Dude]

....I wish our hole was that luxurious, we was evicted from "our" hole in the road and had to go and live in a sewer, a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox on a smelly ledge in the main sewer. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the box, eat a crust of stale rice straw, go to work washing market drains for fourteen hours a day week in - week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Ah! The good old days

TBWG

Yes I miss Monty Python too (although I have got a 4 peice DVD boxset)

Dave (always looking in the bright side BTW)

[Thaddeus]

You were lucky.

[binnsy]

Hey the boys from the blackstuff were out yesterday and the road should be ok fo one week if it does not rain!!!!!!!!!!

[egg6447]

The government are useless at looking after buriram residents and i believe are racist towards them too.May have something to do with them being sympathisers to pol pot.

POL POT is that the name of the company that has the contract to fill in the holes?

TBWG

naaaaaaa thats pot hole. lol.

[Gary A]

Most provinces have a schedule to repair potholes. It is normally right before an election and/or right before some high class mucketty mucks come for a visit.

[Dave the Dude]

Most provinces have a schedule to repair potholes. It is normally right before an election and/or right before some high class mucketty mucks come for a visit.

Correct and by the time they have gone back, the pot-holes reappears, as if by Issan magic!

Dave