News Forum - New Bangkok tunnel closed on opening day due to flood

[Thaiger]

You couldn’t make this up. Finally, after 13 years of construction, the new Fai Chai Tunnel in Bangkok officially opened yesterday only to close due to a flood.  Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt last month visited the unfinished Fai Chai Tunnel to talk with the Director of the Public Work Department, Taiwut Khankaew, about the project’s delay. Chadchart made a few barbed comments to Taiwut about the project’s perpetual holdup which first began in 2009. Chadchart said… “Director, you should be careful with every detail. No more chances to close the tunnel to fix the construction again. The road seems a […]

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[Fanta]

Passive aggression 

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

close due to a flood

Another construction masterpiece. Atleast no one died (yet) due to collapsing structures

[MrStretch]

Urban planning at its finest.

[DesperateOldHand]

....and they'll continue to cement over a natural flood plain.

[BJoe]

Wait ,  there’s a movie plot here…somewhere.     Now if only there had been people in cars…trapped in the flooded tunnel….and it took3 days and a British “rescue team” to fly in to the rescue.   Familiar ?

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

14 minutes ago, BJoe said:

Wait ,  there’s a movie plot here…somewhere.     Now if only there had been people in cars…trapped in the flooded tunnel….and it took3 days and a British “rescue team” to fly in to the rescue.   Familiar ?

And Musk offers a submarine to go in and save people?