NEWS UPDATE
Reports are coming in on Tuesday of a large Phuket crash on Patong Hill this morning. About 9.30am, police stopped letting vehicles except motorcycles from crossing the hill from the Phuket City side. Motorists were being told to access Patong via Chalong and Karon.
Original Report
A HUGE tailback of vehicles turned the Patong Hill road between Phuket City and Patong into a no-go zone this afternoon.
Gridlock stopped all traffic heading towards Patong as the regular rain that has been dousing Phuket each afternoon brought slippery conditions.
Phuketwan was in the traffic but, like others who were fortunate enough to be given the option before being locked in to the route across the hill, turned back just after passing through the Tungtong police checkpoint.
Scores of other vehicles, stretching off into the distance up the hill but not moving, were not so fortunate.
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Just another sign of the infrastructure not being able to support even the current level of visitors, let alone 3 times that.
This policy of constantly building and inviting more people will lead to total chaos on all sectors. Road network, garbage collection, waste water management, water supply, electricity supply, internet services, public transport, air traffic management - to name a few.
I'm just waiting for the day when everything just collapses. We foreigners can simply leave but what kind of Phuket is left behind for the locals ?
They are left with what they created.
Posted by Chris on March 7, 2011 22:50