Thanks for the road widening - but can you move the power poles, please

[Jonmarleesco]

'"How can this happen? Who is responsible?"' How quaint. So tongue in cheek.

 

Presumably the simplest solution will be to move them to the pavement.

[Jonmarleesco]

2 hours ago, slapout said:

I was informed by a self proclaimed expert, it is done this way to discourge any other country from having any desire to try and take control of this, the LOS. They brag that they have never been colonized as has most of the rest of the world. Once you have lived here a few years, see the country, people, good and bad,  warts and all who would take it if it was given as a gift?

'... who would take it if it was given as a gift?' Which, of course, is precisely why no colonising country did. Though Japan did. But that was an occupation.

[NCC1701A]

I await the inevitable headlines.

 

 

[bandito]

The poles are not the responsibility of the roadworks.

It's the Electricity Generation Authority who is responsible to move the poles.

That's how things work in this country.

[mfd101]

17 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

Stop you lost them at the liaison team part. 

My boss in Canberra used to say: "The verb 'liaise' is the weakest verb in the English language." And we worked in the maze which is the Defence bureaucracy, so we were experts.

[Stargeezr]

In most countries, the power poles would have been moved first, then the road widened.

Not in Thailand where it seems that stupidity is the first order of the day.

Incredible!

Geezer

[Canceraid]

Hub of Buffoons?

[lvr181]

On 3/1/2017 at 6:58 PM, The Old Bull said:

When I was a highways engineer that was part of the job. Pole moves , pipeline crossings , railroad crossings etc. Getting agreements and coordinating the whole thing.

That is sensible farang way - NOT Thai way !

 

LOS = Land of Silliness?  

[wayned]

Just think about it, crap like this happens in every country in the world!  The budget for widening a road is approved and all funds must be used and dispersed by a certain date or they are lost, and the budget for installing the new sewers is approved but the approved commencement date is after the completion date of the road widening so a month after the road is finished it's dug up to put in the sewers!  Happens all of the time!

[sfokevin]

Par for the course... 

 

 

[chainarong]

On ‎3‎/‎1‎/‎2017 at 4:01 PM, elgordo38 said:

Stop you lost them at the liaison team part. 

The only coordination is the color coordination

[Morakot]

18 hours ago, wayned said:

Just think about it, crap like this happens in every country in the world!  The budget for widening a road is approved and all funds must be used and dispersed by a certain date or they are lost, and the budget for installing the new sewers is approved but the approved commencement date is after the completion date of the road widening so a month after the road is finished it's dug up to put in the sewers!  Happens all of the time!

True bill!

 

Last year in "super efficient" Germany a similar story... From what I'm able to make out: federal railway authorities raised the height of a platform to make the line usable for wheelchairs. Regional station operator, who is responsible for the station building has different funding procedures; they didn't have their funds approved yet to raise the floors of the connected building. Consequently all of the outwards opening doors onto the platform were blocked due to the height increase, leaving people having to climb through windows...

 

 

 

 

 

[Foexie]

On ‎1‎/‎03‎/‎2017 at 5:34 AM, Cuchulainn said:

Typical Thai (mis)management.

Sure .... Never happens in other countries    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/power-poles-left-in-major-arterial-road-create-traffic-problems/news-story/2c2bed7656e851654532aa7ffa2557bc

[Ceruhe]

I don't see the problem, plenty of space for food carts to settle down