News Forum - Chiang Mai’s 1-month pledge to clear dead power cables

[Thaiger]

Chiang Mai Municipality promises to remove all of the city’s dead wires and cables within a month. When they finish burying the new cables underground is another matter. Following residents’ complaints, the municipality began tidying power and communication lines around the Wang Sing Kham community yesterday while another project to transfer cables underground continued near Chiang Mai University. Since the fire broke out at Sampeng Market near Bangkok’s Chinatown last month, residents have lived in fear and demanded officials take care of the messy electrical wires in their communities. Last month, locals from the Wang Sing Kham community in Pa […]

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[MichaelT]

If it took 15 years to bury 3.5 kilometers of wires underground, surely removing all the dead cable wires  within a month seems impossible . Also it’ll probably take 100 yrs to bury all the cables underground in the city. Chiang Mai is better than that!!

[Bluesofa]

1 hour ago, MichaelT said:

If it took 15 years to bury 3.5 kilometers of wires underground, surely removing all the dead cable wires  within a month seems impossible . Also it’ll probably take 100 yrs to bury all the cables underground in the city. Chiang Mai is better than that!!

It's the usual story of officials telling the public what they 'want to hear', irrespective of how much truth (if any) is in the statement.
I'm sure they just hope people will lose interest, or forget what was said.

15 hours ago, Thaiger said:

 

The authorities promised they would finish removing the rest of the useless cables within a month and continue tidying cables in other places around the province.

According to the report, the province would continue its proposed project of burying wires underground, and the first operation would start on roads near Wat Umong Suan Phutthathan and Chiang Mai University in the Mueang Chaing Mai district. A date was not given for completion.

 

When it's eventually near completion, and if a completion date is given, perhaps someone could respond with the same sarcasm as the Bangkok governor did recently regarding a very-much-delayed road improvement project:
When told the project would finally be completed by August 1st, the governor responded by asking, "What time on August 1st?"

[Fanta]

2 hours ago, MichaelT said:

If it took 15 years to bury 3.5 kilometers of wires underground, surely removing all the dead cable wires  within a month seems impossible .

Depends on the price being paid for second hand copper?