Steep Slope Stalls Phuket Shortcut Plan

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Steep slope stalls Phuket shortcut plan

HIGH IN THE HILLS: The route originally designated for the Kathu-Wichit

cut-through is too steep to pave.

TIME SAVER: A map showing the new route.

PHUKET: -- Work is underway on a new road joining Kathu and Wichit, in central Phuket, but the plans are being reviewed as the main hill the road was to pass over has proved too steep to pave.

Teeraporn Jirarattanakorn, director of the Department of Rural Roads office in Phuket, told the Phuket Gazette the completed 1.5-kilometer road will connect Wichit Songkram Road in Kathu with Chaofa Thani Road in Wichit.

The roadwork is being carried out under an 11 million baht budget for fiscal 2011.

Built on land donated by six private owners, the road will be a typical rural road with two 3.5-meter-wide lanes running in opposite directions and no median strip.

The road will start at Soi Luang Cha-na Thongtan on Wichit Songkhram Road, near the Kuan Lim San community, and connect with Chaofa Thani Road, about halfway between Prince of Songkhla University and the Honda Anuphas showroom on Chao Fa West Road.

Once completed, the road is expected to save considerable time for motorists looking to bypass the congested section of Chao Fa East Road from Kajonkietsuksa School to Darasamuth School junction.

Work clearing the land is underway and the office hopes to sign a contract this month to build a 650-meter stretch extending from Wichit Songkhram Road and a 400-meter stretch extending Chaofa Thani Road.

The two “spur roads” are scheduled for completion by September 30.

However, Mr Teeraporn explained the hill is too steep to safely build a road over.

“Landslides could occur, so we need to revise the road plan. We may excavate the hilltop, but the budget required will increase to 30 million baht,” he said.

An alternative route around the hill is also being considered, he added.

Funding for any extra work is expected to become available in fiscal 2012, which starts on October 1, 2011, Mr Teeraporn added.

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-05-26

[JetsetBkk]

So was the original design just a scribble on an old map? Did anyone actually go look at the proposed route?

You really couldn't make this stuff up. What's Thai for "planning"?

[LivinginKata]

What's Thai for "planning"?

"what's my cut" ....

[steelepulse]

>>What's Thai for "planning"?

Multi million baht "feasibility study" in which is discussed if it's feasible to buy everyone in on the study a new car.

[kennalder]

Here's an idea.

Why not build the first nuclear plant on top of the hill.

Within a few months the whole mountain will either be blown off the map, (there is a map right?) or it will melt down to a reasonable grade.

[bunta71]

Give me back my dozer for a couple days. I am experienced in removing mountain tops

[brieno1955]

So was the original design just a scribble on an old map? Did anyone actually go look at the proposed route?

You really couldn't make this stuff up. What's Thai for "planning"?

Thai for "planning" is in the same dictionary as "nouse, logic,..

Also being perhaps the most incorrigible race i have ever encountered makes this and similar stories here so believable :jap:

[Valentine]

I think my hometown has the record for the steepest street in the world yet it is tar sealed & has been for much longer than 7 years without having to renew the seal. It was probably badly planned originally but now they see the mistake it looks open to quite a lot more expense & .....

[brieno1955]

I think my hometown has the record for the steepest street in the world yet it is tar sealed & has been for much longer than 7 years without having to renew the seal. It was probably badly planned originally but now they see the mistake it looks open to quite a lot more expense & .....

You are obviously talking about Baldwin STreet.....That is for sure bl--dy steep..And as you say sealed a very very long time.

Couldn't use it if it were not sealed as a matter of fact..[unless in 4x4]....

Only difference in Dunedin of course is that ALL the money dedicated to a job, gets spent on the job...do it once -do it right!! An unknown phrase in LOS..