Hanging wires in Pattaya - Thai media says locals and expats in the resort are getting tired of waiting.

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Hanging wires in Pattaya - Thai media says locals and expats in the resort are getting tired of waiting.

 

Image: Manager

 

Manager reported that both Thais and foreign residents in Pattaya are tired of waiting for action on the issue of hanging electrical wires and other cables.

They said that the situation was both unsightly and dangerous for people using the roads such as pedestrians.

And it is especially hazardous as many of the worst cases of hanging wires are situated outside schools and colleges where children and young people walk and congregate.

They published a gallery of some of the worst places in the city.

Manager said that the government had allocated 11,668 million baht to address the problem in Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai and Korat combined.

Some 3.1 billion baht was meant to be spent in Pattaya in three phases over the next five years.

The work is now expected to start near the end of the year in the Sukhumvit/ Central Pattaya area.

The completion date for Pattaya is 2021.

Work includes burying cables and wire and installing "overhead ground wires", said Manager.

 

Source: Manager

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-07-22

[SongSomSoda]

Are these not only data / phone cables

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[wgdanson]

Overhead ground wires ?????????

[Chang_paarp]

While the power cables and their quality connections offer the greatest threat to public safety, the visual scourge is the plethora of other cables strung around. The loops and boxes in the image above are phone and internet cabling. These cables whilst low voltage and as a result relatively safe are the visual pollution that everyone notices. There does not seem to be any urgency to remove this blight.

Mind you creating the underground infrastructure to bury all these cables will cause all sorts of traffic chaos, especially as the different authorities and companies each has to bury their own cabling at different times rather than in a coordinated manner.

Edited July 22, 2017 by Chang_paarp

[johng]

The meter at main gate of the school my stepdaughter attends


Jomtien Beach


Apartment corridor

[Rimmer]

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Overhead ground wires ?????????

It is the shield wire that runs over the top of the HT cables, they are to protect the HT cables from lightning strikes.

[mikebell]

I thought Bill Gates had ordered Prayuth to get this sorted out?

[connda]

They have been there for decades.  Why are the locals now 'getting tired of waiting.'  

[Bangkok Barry]

I thought there was a project to do this two or three years ago. Then nothing happened, and now nothing will happen again and no-one will ask where the project money went.

[hansnl]

5 hours ago, SongSomSoda said:

Are these not only data / phone cables

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And not only in Pattaya.......

Anyway, if authorities refrain from doing their jobs, this hanging eyesore is the result.

[micmichd]

5 minutes ago, hansnl said:

And not only in Pattaya.......

Anyway, if authorities refrain from doing their jobs, this hanging eyesore is the result.

Hang on, the heavy rains in Pattaya only stopped two days ago. They're doing their job in Pattaya, and they're faster than they would be in Germany. 

[Reigntax]

4 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Overhead ground wires ?????????

 

Lets hope they mean overhead earth wiring and not overhead underground wiring to save us from witnessing a new technology miracle.

[Tchooptip]

The post just behind our house and neighbours meters was almost falling, so the electricity company came,  

no problem now everything is OK they told us we repaired everything 

[thaibeachlovers]

The completion date for Pattaya is 2021.
X a million.

 

Even if they bury every cable there is at present, the phone people will keep running new ones like they do now, so same same.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, Tchooptip said:

The post just behind our house and neighbours meters was almost falling, so the electricity company came,  

no problem now everything is OK they told us we repaired everything 

After a storm blew down a power pole in Lamphun, the cable guys tied them to a tree, as a PERMANENT solution .

 

Anyone been on the road from Chiang Mai to Phayao will have seen all the cables with trees grown around them.

 

Anyway, what do they expect when they employ guys that have no idea to save money?

[Daryle]

Hang on, the heavy rains in Pattaya only stopped two days ago. They're doing their job in Pattaya, and they're faster than they would be in Germany. 

How true, but just one death this storm. Better luck next time....

[scunner]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

After a storm blew down a power pole in Lamphun, the cable guys tied them to a tree, as a PERMANENT solution .

 

Anyone been on the road from Chiang Mai to Phayao will have seen all the cables with trees grown around them.

 

Anyway, what do they expect when they employ guys that have no idea to save money?

Well that's one way to prevent / reduce illegal logging 

[YetAnother]

9 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

While the power cables and their quality connections offer the greatest threat to public safety, the visual scourge is the plethora of other cables strung around. The loops and boxes in the image above are phone and internet cabling. These cables whilst low voltage and as a result relatively safe are the visual pollution that everyone notices. There does not seem to be any urgency to remove this blight.

Mind you creating the underground infrastructure to bury all these cables will cause all sorts of traffic chaos, especially as the different authorities and companies each has to bury their own cabling at different times rather than in a coordinated manner.

doubtless; where is the positive incentive here for anyone to act ? RESULT: no action

[Langsuan Man]

5 hours ago, YetAnother said:

doubtless; where is the positive incentive here for anyone to act ? RESULT: no action

 

This whole hanging wire problem would just go away if the authorities would just charge to use the poles.  Trust me,  you are not going to pay for a line that is not bringing you any income

 

Use market forces to get the job done.  As long as people can just hang what they want to on someone else's property there will  never be any change 

[JSixpack]

On 7/22/2017 at 8:15 AM, Chang_paarp said:

While the power cables and their quality connections offer the greatest threat to public safety, the visual scourge is the plethora of other cables strung around. The loops and boxes in the image above are phone and internet cabling. These cables whilst low voltage and as a result relatively safe are the visual pollution that everyone notices.

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Part of the charm of a 3rd World country, pal. See the same thing in Vietnam. Enjoy the spaghetti art. Besides, to bury them would be to incur the trolling of our Flooders, who'd sneer that the cables would short out every time it rains. Every storm, we'd have to have the reports.

 

Doing something about the power cables would be desirable though.

Unfortunate Brit Electrocuted During Rain Storm In Pattaya

A young Brit man was killed by electricity leaking into the flooded streets of Pattaya, early in the morning of June 19, 2008, during torrential rain, while he was walking through the flood to get back to his room at D & D Hotel. His girlfriend who had been accompanying him was unhurt.

--http://pattayadailynews.com/unfortunate-brit-electrocuted-during-rain-storm-in-pattaya/

Edited July 23, 2017 by JSixpack