News Forum - Angry locals go bananas over poor road conditions

[Thaiger]

Residents in Ang Thong, in the central of Thailand, are so angry with officials in the Department of Rural Roads about the treacherous state of their roads that they have planted banana trees in the cracks of the tarmac in protest. Ang Thong locals have reported the dangerous conditions of their highways, roads and thoroughfares, to officials on a number of occasions over the past 5 years but nothing has been done. And the lack of interest in maintaining the road has left residents so furious that they have planted banana trees in the middle of the damaged roads to […]

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[Cabra]

In future news... The number of cars hitting trees in the middle of the road reach an all time high

[Ivo_Shandor]

They should come and check certain sectors of phahonyothin highway and its frontage road between din daeng and pathum thani too... maybe palm trees can fit in 

[Graham]

As has been pointed out, maintenance is the key word here along with government dept, anyone seen any maintenance being carried out on a regular basis in Thailand  ?

[Benroon]

It's all down to who's got their eye (or hands) on the budgets.

Near me there was a notorious piece of road that would have cyclists off every day, was like it for years whilst all around it roads were near pristine and redone every year - it turns out the shite piece of road was outside a high end block of condos owned by one of Thailands wealthiest men but he has a personal feud ongoing with the mayor of the town and the mayor decides which money is spent on which road.

If no-one stands to make a few quid, that road isn't going to get fixed - may as well sell the bananas!

[HiuMak]

18 hours ago, Graham said:

As has been pointed out, maintenance is the key word here along with government dept, anyone seen any maintenance being carried out on a regular basis in Thailand  ?

Will happen only near election