webfact Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Saraburi road gives way just months after repairsImage: Daily NewsSARABURI: -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by ratcatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halloween Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Still got a bike lane. Daytime only would be best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janpharma Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Of course...the money disappeared into the pockets from the "oboto"...not from the contractor ...same endless story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Not sure what can be done on these Khlong-adjacent roads, without serious expense. There have been hundreds of these since the drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
300sd Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 They just don't care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Treatments for skin blemishes cannot cure skin cancer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetley Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Looks like about a metre of sand under the blacktop.......surprised that subsided so quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tominbkk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winniedapu Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SABloke Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdoglover Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) Dodgy base material, thin road surface. The money went elsewhere. Edited June 16, 2016 by phoenixdoglover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selftaopath Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 And if someone was injured or killed we'd read/hear "bad luck." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodknock Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 what engineers from Thailand- Ha-Ha same ones where building collapsed!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIWIBATCH Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ..."trust us (roading contractors)...we are Thai".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selftaopath Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ..."trust us (roading contractors)...we are Thai".... Having the word trust and Thai in the same sentence is really a mind twister. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ...sounds about right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 "Saraburi road gives way just months after repairs" Those with genuine civil engineering degrees flabbergasted road lasted that long..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf12 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ''The road had just been repaired by a contractor from December to March.'' The picture above would suggest it hadn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatproblem Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansnl Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amusements Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Maybe Thailand could hold the next Bog Snorkeling world championships during rainy season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Gravy Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottocus Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Indicative of the whole country. A failed state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvr181 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) OMG. No freeking idea how to carry out permanent repairs! On a more positive note, the driver did not run away Edited June 16, 2016 by lvr181 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selftaopath Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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