PHUKET: Flooding quickly made parts of Phuket City and Patong impassable when a deluge dumped on the holiday island about noon today.
The underpass construction site at the Tesco Lotus intersection in Phuket City quickly went under several feet of water, leaving some motorists with no choice except to turn back.
Patong, on the island's west coast, also sank under water in all the usual places.
Delays caused by flooding are one reason why completion of the Tesco Lotus underpass is months overdue . . . and why it continues to flood.
About one billion baht has been earmarked for to relieve chronic flooding in Phuket City and Patong, where officials say there is no serious flooding, just regular ''interruptions to the flow of unwanted water.''
The Phuket-based Bureau of Meteorology was not answering calls at lunchtime.
The underpass construction site at the Tesco Lotus intersection in Phuket City quickly went under several feet of water, leaving some motorists with no choice except to turn back.
Patong, on the island's west coast, also sank under water in all the usual places.
Delays caused by flooding are one reason why completion of the Tesco Lotus underpass is months overdue . . . and why it continues to flood.
About one billion baht has been earmarked for to relieve chronic flooding in Phuket City and Patong, where officials say there is no serious flooding, just regular ''interruptions to the flow of unwanted water.''
The Phuket-based Bureau of Meteorology was not answering calls at lunchtime.
To build an underpass at the lowest point with runoff water flowing in from 2 different directions is not very logical.
A flyover would be cheaper and quicker to build and highly unlikely to flood.
One can only hope that lessons will be learned from this location before the next underpass to be built at a chronically flooding-prone location at Chalong Circle commences.
Posted by Herbert on October 17, 2015 13:16
Editor Comment:
The commitment is to five underpasses. Flyover have been rejected.