Safety Roller Corruption Issue

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Safety Roller Corruption Issue

PATTAYA:--August 7,2015 [PattayaDailyNews]; Mr Sanit Boonmachay- a Pattaya member- addressed a conference about purchasing Safety Rollers that protect pedestrians from cars which may lose control, they cost about 10 million baht. He claimed that they had been purchased by Pattaya officials and were very expensive and useless. He added that there was corruption involved.

Mr Sanit said that Traffic Engineering section of Pattaya had asked for a budget to purchase the Safety Rollers to be installed on the road near the railroad. The congress rejected the request and said they are too expensive and didn’t believe that they would reduce accidents. However, somebody had tried to push the project forward until the budget was approved.

Read more-http://pattayadailynews.com/safety-roller-corruption-issue/

-- Pattaya Daily News 2015-08-09

[NeverSure]

There's nothing I hate worse than corrupt safety rollers. Oh wait. That wasn't the problem?

[Bulldozer Dawn]

Remember the movie Jurassic Park. The park had cars on a monorail system and could not stray off. That is the only type of system that will improve road safety here.

[BigBadGeordie]

Corruption, government officials, personal gain, Pattaya.

Don't believe a word of it!

Meanwhile back at the beach, lot's of tourists are having fun on a jet-ski.

[Thrilla]

Corruption.. Wot ?

[amerasianex]

Safety rollers <deleted> are safety rollers? You have to be s%$#ing me.. 19 million THB for safety rollers...I smell a big stinking thieving sum tom eating RAT

[Don Mega]

"However, somebody had tried to push the project forward until the budget was approved.

Had tried ?..... seems the push was successful as they were installed a few weeks ago on a corner that would have exactly zero pedestrians that need protection.

[balo]

Safety rollers would cost maybe 1 million baht if they are produced in Thailand, so where did 9 million go ?

[cornishcarlos]

Corruption, government officials, personal gain, Pattaya.

Don't believe a word of it!

Meanwhile back at the beach, lot's of tourists are having fun on a jet-ski.

How many tourists can you get on a jetski ?

[ksamuiguy]

Interesting idea, but seems no more effective than normal guard rails, except that it seams to prevents additional damage to the vehicle.

Look at the video, looks like a maintenance nightmare if hit.

[Lupatria]

Here, even the purchase of a dozen knitting needles for a home of the elderly would turn into a corruption case.

[laocowboy2]

It would be a lot quicker just to feature contracts where there is NO evidence of corruption of 'expensive' pricing. Save you a lot of posting and us a lot of reading time.

[EnglishJohn]

How come we never read stories about officials getting sent to prison for corruption ?.

Does it never happen or do the lousy Thai press never bother to report it ?.

[Oziex1]

Remember the movie Jurassic Park. The park had cars on a monorail system and could not stray off. That is the only type of system that will improve road safety here.

Yep, until it fails through lack of maintenance.

[Anthony5]

Interesting idea, but seems no more effective than normal guard rails, except that it seams to prevents additional damage to the vehicle.

Look at the video, looks like a maintenance nightmare if hit.

There are no maintenance nightmares in a country where maintenance is non existent.

[Emster23]

I guess the plan to replace all the autos with bumper cars was voted down then.... I am so tempted to mention driver training, vehicle upkeep, police enforcement.... "to dream the impossible dream....."

[Ulic]

No need to spend money on driver training or pedestrian safety in Thailand. Google will take

cake of it all in a couple of years.

[how241]

Corruption, government officials, personal gain, Pattaya.

Don't believe a word of it!

Meanwhile back at the beach, lot's of tourists are having fun on a jet-ski.

+1...ha ha ha

[rakman]

That looks like it would be fun.

Take an old car and slide along it on a glancing blow, ride the rollers.

Then charge tickets.. money maker.

[jaywalker]

That looks like it would be fun.

Take an old car and slide along it on a glancing blow, ride the rollers.

Then charge tickets.. money maker.

I like that idea....similar to the train wrecks they used to stage at the World Fair.

See https://youtu.be/yUc3wd4It8g