Pattaya tunnel behind schedule, more delays expected

[Rimmer]

Pattaya tunnel behind schedule, more delays expected

PATTAYA:--The Sukhumvit-Central Road bypass tunnel is nearly 60 percent complete, but contractors admit the job is taking longer than hoped.

 

Project manager Rachan Chan and advisor Somchai Panpao said July 27 that initial plans called for 65.7 percent of the 475-meter-long tunnel to be finished by now. However, the job is only 56.6% done, they said.

Contractors currently are working inside the tunnel, mainly creating walls and metal reinforcements to strengthen the interior.

 

Read More:http://www.pattayamail.com/featured/pattaya-tunnel-behind-schedule-delays-expected-144375

 

PATTAYA MAIL: 2016-08-05

[Woody1]

There's a real surprise!!

[taichiplanet]

what are they worried about, close enough is good enough. Just whack a roof on it and we can start using it. The road surface looks about up to par with other main roads in Pattaya.

[Chang_paarp]

36 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

65.7 percent of the 475-meter-long tunnel to be finished by now. However, the job is only 56.6% done, they said.

 

Don't you love the exact percentages, it shows they are accountant rather than engineers.

 

Speaking of engineers, could someone with appropriate qualifications comment on this;

38 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Contractors currently are working inside the tunnel, mainly creating walls and metal reinforcements to strengthen the interior.

 

[ChrisY1]

Does any civil project ever get completed on time and budget here?.......the cost over-runs and extension of time costs must be horrendous......but being taxpayers money, it's just par for the course....!

[williamgeorgeallen]

well thats better than i would have expected. news seems to be fairly negative about this tunnel but when it is finished it will be great and far less unsightly than an overpass.

[thhMan]

All it will take is one reported ghost in the Tunnel and its all over

[midas]

15 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

well thats better than i would have expected. news seems to be fairly negative about this tunnel but when it is finished it will be great and far less unsightly than an overpass.

 

 

Since when did it start to matter that something looks unsightly in Pattaya?

[Litlos]

I am just waiting to see how this new drain handles the stormwater.

 

Cheers

[johng]

11 minutes ago, Litlos said:

I am just waiting to see how this new drain handles the stormwater.

 

 me too !.

Edited August 5, 2016 by johng

[JSixpack]

1 hour ago, Chang_paarp said:

 

Don't you love the exact percentages, it shows they are accountant rather than engineers.

 

 

No. Any excuse for a little bash, eh?

 

1 hour ago, Chang_paarp said:

 

Speaking of engineers, could someone with appropriate qualifications comment on this;

 

 

2 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Contractors currently are working inside the tunnel, mainly creating walls and metal reinforcements to strengthen the interior.

 

Common sense will do as a qualification. It tells many of us that the walls of the tunnel can't be just mud and lack any reinforcement. You can probably work out the reasons for yourself without studying engineering. Try to think of the last unreinforced mud tunnel you drove through with 18-wheelers above you.

Edited August 5, 2016 by JSixpack

[does]

30 minutes ago, Litlos said:

I am just waiting to see how this new drain handles the stormwater.

 

Cheers

Raised (sloping upward) entrances at both sides, to prevent the water from flowing into the tunning (I guess).

[guzzi850m2]

Well at least there is light ahead of the tunnel.

[Emster23]

Is it safe to assume that there are no penalties for not finishing on schedule?

[regedit]

The traffic is already much better on this stretch of road northbound - they didn't need to build a tunnel, just close off a couple of lanes and shut-off the red lights at what was a cross-road.

[NormanW]

6 hours ago, Litlos said:

I am just waiting to see how this new drain handles the stormwater.

 

Cheers

Whoops. Errrrr what drains??? ?

[IAMHERE]

16 hours ago, Litlos said:

I am just waiting to see how this new drain handles the stormwater.

 

Cheers

Underwater camera will be needed? I will wait for the youtube video.

[joepattaya1961]

My schedule was early 2020........they're pretty much doing a good job so far.

[burgdawg]

....I am betting 17-20 floating cars, plus 8 motorscooters---all AFLOAT in the first real rain test of the Klang/Sukhumvit Chunnel. Make your wagers-----with yourself!

[i claudius]

As i hear you will have to pay to use it ,who i wonder will bother?

[manarak]

7 minutes ago, i claudius said:

As i hear you will have to pay to use it ,who i wonder will bother?

 

where did you hear that?

 

I think a toll makes no sense for such a short tunnel.

 

I can also only shake my head at the introduction of tolls on highway 7 near Pattaya.

Pattaya should have pushed for the stretch leading to highway 36 to be toll free, what they are doing now will create major traffic problems on the already engorged highway 3, and the traffic of highway 36 from Rayong will also need some way to get to Pattaya.

[i claudius]

7 minutes ago, manarak said:

 

where did you hear that?

 

I think a toll makes no sense for such a short tunnel.

 

I can also only shake my head at the introduction of tolls on highway 7 near Pattaya.

Pattaya should have pushed for the stretch leading to highway 36 to be toll free, what they are doing now will create major traffic problems on the already engorged highway 3, and the traffic of highway 36 from Rayong will also need some way to get to Pattaya.

Actually i read it on the boards here on TV , on another note i just cannot imagine what the traffic here in Pattaya is going to be like in the next few years , with the new dept store opening , i remember how beach road became clogged when central opened , and has got worse over the years , in fact we now no longer go out near town at weekends .

[manarak]

1 minute ago, i claudius said:

Actually i read it on the boards here on TV , on another note i just cannot imagine what the traffic here in Pattaya is going to be like in the next few years , with the new dept store opening , i remember how beach road became clogged when central opened , and has got worse over the years , in fact we now no longer go out near town at weekends .

 

yes, at some point it will be necessary to pierce a passage somewhere at the southern end of beach road.

 

but the traffic got yucky in most of the city.