Saraburi road gives way just months after repairs


Image: Daily News

SARABURI: -- A 200 metre stretch on a Saraburi road collapsed yesterday just months after repairs were carried out.

Deputy governor of the province Dr Charas Bunnasa came to inspect the damage to the Khan Khlong Rapheephat Road behind the temple of Wat Suan Kluay in Nong Khae district reported Daily News. The six metre wide road had subsided some two metres by the Cholaprathan Canal.

He ordered the road closed and temporary measures to be taken to make part of it usable to ease difficulties for people in the area.

The road had just been repaired by a contractor from December to March.

Source: Daily News

-- 2016-06-16

The road had just been repaired by a contractor from December to March."

And in April, he was enjoying the beaches in the West Indies.

Edited June 16, 201610 yr by ratcatcher

Still got a bike lane. Daytime only would be best.

this is Thailand, nothing is done well the fist time.

why repair a road once and for all if you can do a mickey mouse job and come

repair it again with some tall excuse why he couldn't repair it well the first time....

Of course...the money disappeared into the pockets from the "oboto"...not from the contractor ...same endless story

Not sure what can be done on these Khlong-adjacent roads, without serious expense. There have been hundreds of these since the drought.

They just don't care!

Treatments for skin blemishes cannot cure skin cancer!

Not sure what can be done on these Khlong-adjacent roads, without serious expense. There have been hundreds of these since the drought.

It's pointless repairing these roads as this one has been....poor material.....limited compaction with testing....

Now they'll likely get the same contractor, same people and get the same job again........because the usual graft is probably involved

Looks like about a metre of sand under the blacktop.......surprised that subsided so quick.

What did they expect? All they did was put about 2 inches of asphalt over land that needs a lot more support than that if it is going to last!

No point grumbling, these people are hopeless measured with any yardstick you like.

Corrupt, dishonest and just hopeless. Another poster got it right - they just don't care, they won't get caught, if they get caught they won't get punished, if they get punished it'll be 1 month in a window seat then back at it again. Everyone's at it, and the benefit of that is whoever threatens you with punishment for corruption is also at it, so, just find out where their money supply stream trickles up from and as soon as you know, as if my magic, all the pressure comes off.

Thailand is a failed state. Knock it down and start again.

Win

If thay road subsided by 2 metres then the guy in the centre must be about 6 metres (20 feet) tall! Surely it's a Guiness record

time to actually have engineers survey and make the ones building these roads do what is stipulated & they are paid for. The way it works here they are subcontracted out to the lowest bidder(more than once) so that the one hiring can pocket the rest till there is not enough money to pay for it to be properly.This should have had sub structure/pierings to hold the ground under the road along with road base etc so it couldnt collapse but that would have eaten up all the profits they pocketed

Dodgy base material, thin road surface. The money went elsewhere.

Edited June 16, 201610 yr by phoenixdoglover

And if someone was injured or killed we'd read/hear "bad luck."

what engineers from Thailand- Ha-Ha

same ones where building collapsed!!!

..."trust us (roading contractors)...we are Thai"....

..."trust us (roading contractors)...we are Thai"....

Having the word trust and Thai in the same sentence is really a mind twister.

...sounds about right....

"Saraburi road gives way just months after repairs"

Those with genuine civil engineering degrees flabbergasted road lasted that long.....

Not sure what can be done on these Khlong-adjacent roads, without serious expense. There have been hundreds of these since the drought.

Doing the job correctly would seem to be the answer. Wouldn't be cheap I agree but a lot cheaper than re--doing the job every few months

''The road had just been repaired by a contractor from December to March.''

The picture above would suggest it hadn't...

Why not have a clause in contract to build road that it has to be maintained for 3 years in with the price put to tender ,the remainder of the money paid after the 3 red year ,would work out cheaper for government in the end ,instead of paying for new road every 6 months

Shoddy work?

Maybe.

But the reason for these disappearing acts of so many road might easily found in the drought and the lowering of the groundwaterlevel due to the drought and the unstoppable pumping up of groundwater.

Maybe Thailand could hold the next Bog Snorkeling world championships during rainy season?

The saddest thing for me is why the Thai people on TV and in Thailand are not screaming from the rooftops shouting for an explanation and for someone's head. Instead you get, well nothing Mai Pen Rai or well this is Thailand. What a shame.

Indicative of the whole country. A failed state.

OMG. No freeking idea how to carry out permanent repairs!

On a more positive note, the driver did not run away

Edited June 16, 201610 yr by lvr181

Why not have a clause in contract to build road that it has to be maintained for 3 years in with the price put to tender ,the remainder of the money paid after the 3 red year ,would work out cheaper for government in the end ,instead of paying for new road every 6 months

The system of graft would not allow this...This "ain't" a developed country where rule of law and consequences for mis-deeds prevail. So... do something.... get money... do it again.... get money... and again and again.... HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.