Thai Cabinet OKs fund to bring electrical cables underground in 4 cities

[newnative]

Unless they put ALL the wires underground it's just a total waste of time and money.  If they actually put them underground on Pattaya Second Road it would be nice if they improved the sidewalks at the same time--which would be a good time to do it.  Disgraceful for such a major, major road with so many pedestrians having to walk in the street in places where there are no sidewalks at all. 

[3NUMBAS]

They will run hotter and need ratings recalculated so sizes will change ..Someone stands to make a lot of cash replacing the whole lot

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They will run hotter and need ratings recalculated so sizes will change ..Someone stands to make a lot of cash replacing the whole lot

An optimist.... your assuming that they will run at all

[DerekMarshall]

gonna end up digging them up every other week to fix 'em! 

[NormanW]

I wish this were true. However I think they have grossly underestimated the complexity of the job. We wait with bated breath for the day of organised power cables. They don't have a standard infrastructure which makes things so much more slower and yes therefore more expensive. 

 

And as mentioned earlier all those 'extra ' cables for other services. Are they going to be underground too? 

[NormanW]

On 16/02/2017 at 6:54 AM, Cake Monster said:

After years of digging up the Sukumvit road , Soi SCC, and many other side Soi,s for tunnels and water mains, we will now have to put up with more digging up of the roads for this farcical project ( if it ever happens ).

Even more traffic chaos around Pattaya to come 

Is there no end to all this  ??????

 

To answer your question: no there's no end to it. At least not in our lifetime! 

 

It takes decades to move from a developing country to a developed country.