webfact Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Bangkok suffers another road crater The Nation BANGKOK: -- Not long after a road in north Bangkok collapsed last month, a second incident occurred yesterday in Sukhumvit Soi 31 when work on water mains went wrong, creating a metre-deep crater overnight and causing heavy traffic congestion when an empty school van plunged into the crater yesterday morning. Deputy Bangkok governor Theerachon Manomaiphiboon blamed this on the contractor hired for the job by the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA), and set city workers to conduct repairs and fill the hole. He said at an earlier MWA job, workers did not pump out the water flooding the area before filling it, which later widened a hole underground and weakened the foundation, causing the road to collapse. The Watthana district office is looking to see if jobs done by the contractor in question, as well as other MWA tasks, were being done after prior approval. -- The Nation 2012-08-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siampolee Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 This is the result of awarding subcontracting work on a''commission'' basis as opposed to awarding work on a proven responsible completed task scenario. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjjmmi Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) The Blame game was not me Edited August 11, 2012 by sjjmmi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxLee Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) Safety measurements in Thailand??? Are you kidding me...??? Inaccountability without warning... oh my... Edited August 11, 2012 by MaxLee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKvampire Posted August 11, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) Many roads in BKK in compete disrepair dangerous . Maybe that's why all the motorbikes drive on the footpaths Edited August 11, 2012 by KKvampire 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHR1010 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Sukhumvit Soi 31 Hope Dear Leader is safe. Which "Dear Leader"? Sent from my HTC phone. The location of this sink-hole is very close to the Prime Minister's house who's term ended when the current prime minister took over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yougivemebaby Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Any Photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post overherebc Posted August 11, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2012 Latest report on the Crater is that the Police are looking into it. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrysteve Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 A Transportation Hub Are these the same bactch of contractors that layed the runways. Are any of these peope real civil engineers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 I wonder which Latin-American country is going to be found responsible, for this sinkhole, having put-in deep foundations for some very-tall building ? It's always nice the blame the right foreigner ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 The way they award contracts in Thailand is very straight forward Contracts are awarded on two points 1- Regardless of qualification, lowest bidder wins 2- More kickbacks - more chance of contracts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saengsureeya Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 No problem......next year you will see Vettel ( or or or......... who are the other ones?) disappear in a huge hole during the F1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcw Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) The way they award contracts in Thailand is very straight forwardContracts are awarded on two points 1- Regardless of qualification, lowest bidder wins 2- More kickbacks - more chance of contracts LuckyLew, I completly disagree, price doesn't matter, it is public money, the size of the kick back to the public servants deciding the job is what wins contracts. Edited August 11, 2012 by metisdead : Instead of using different colored fonts, learn to use the Quote function in the tool bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambodave Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 A Transportation Hub Are these the same bactch of contractors that layed the runways. Are any of these peope real civil engineers They are not civil and they are not engineers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Sukhumvit Soi 31 Hope Dear Leader is safe. as 'Dear Leader' (i mean the REAL one) has not been in thailand for a while now, i guess he''l be safe... Enough!!! For heavens sakes, its about a SINKHOLE. Stay on topic please. ENOUGH. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterbiker49 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 A Transportation Hub Are these the same bactch of contractors that layed the runways. Are any of these peope real civil engineers They are not civil and they are not engineers +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerrysum Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 A Transportation Hub Are these the same bactch of contractors that layed the runways. Are any of these peope real civil engineers It has been this way for years, why should we be so suprised????? History never lies, those in charge do......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimamey Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 No problem......next year you will see Vettel ( or or or......... who are the other ones?) disappear in a huge hole during the F1 Maybe F1 should be staged in different areas each year. That way the roads might get fixed properly. It may be me but they seem to be getting worse over the years I've been visiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Off-topic references to politicians have been deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Latest report on the Crater is that the Police are looking into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siampolee Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 To think that Bernard Cribbins foresaw this situation years ago.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk4AKOwJbc&feature=relmfu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellodolly Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Latest report on the Crater is that the Police are looking into it. While they are there get them some proper fill and shovels along with a jumping jack so they can make themselves worth while. If need be send instruction book for each tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoodMaiDai Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Can we get Chalerm on the case? He'll sort it out. Guaranteed, no sink holes in 90 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOEYCHANLOY Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Mai chai. It is a meteorite fall! Sent from my GT-S5830T using Thaivisa Connect App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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