Two years ago, I reported on the sad state that was Thappraya road. At that time, they had already spent a couple of years dicking around with a road widening project and had got as far as reducing the edge of the road to rubble.
And here is the road today:
At first glance, it doesn’t look any better; the edge of the road still looks like a bomb site. But we have just been through two years of disruption and dust and we finally have a widened, 2x3 lane road; meaning that the bomb site has actually been moved a couple of metres to the left. Not that this improves anything. The inside lane will be used for parking, the middle lane will be used for double parking, leaving only the outside lane for driving and the inevitable accidents.
So, about four years for around a kilometre of road widening. And they have not finished yet. There is long, long stretch still to complete; this is the current state of play a little further down the road:
One they get near completion, they will come back to the start and dig it all up again. There is good money to be made from road construction. So, as long as people are being heavily inconvenienced and choked with dust in at least one part of the city, all is well with the world.
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2010-04-08| Savoy Brown says@Spike: “There is good money to be made from road construction.”
Yes, but can’t they move the road construction somewhere else for a while… Like over to the Dark Side… This is getting ridiculous…
2010-04-09| todd saysthe overpass from sukumvit to the highway was completed and opened in less time… how hard can a stretch of road be…
it’s a joke, but really, what ISN’T a joke here, i’m not so surprised by things like this anymore i’m more surprised when things work.