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PHUKET: With wet weather enveloping Phuket, the race is on to keep the Central Festival Phuket underpass dry enough so construction can be finished before the island stages the Asian Beach Games in November.
The underpass, designed to speed north-south and east-west traffic through one of Phuket's most congested intersections, is 74 percent complete, Governor Maitree Intrusud was told when he visited the tunnel site today.
''It would be great to have the underpass finished before the next tourism high season,'' the governor told Phuketwan.
The Director of Phuket's Roads Department, Samak Lerdwonghat, said he was confident the deadline of completion in October could be met despite the need to adequately drain the project with the wet season now striking the island.
A second underpass at Phuket's Tesco Lotus intersection about one kilometre from Central Festival is 20 percent complete, Khun Samak said.
''We expect the site to be affected by minor flooding during construction,'' he said today. ''But we have made allowances for that and the Tesco Lotus intersection should be finished on time next year.''
The underpass, designed to speed north-south and east-west traffic through one of Phuket's most congested intersections, is 74 percent complete, Governor Maitree Intrusud was told when he visited the tunnel site today.
''It would be great to have the underpass finished before the next tourism high season,'' the governor told Phuketwan.
The Director of Phuket's Roads Department, Samak Lerdwonghat, said he was confident the deadline of completion in October could be met despite the need to adequately drain the project with the wet season now striking the island.
A second underpass at Phuket's Tesco Lotus intersection about one kilometre from Central Festival is 20 percent complete, Khun Samak said.
''We expect the site to be affected by minor flooding during construction,'' he said today. ''But we have made allowances for that and the Tesco Lotus intersection should be finished on time next year.''
I hope so as driving a motorbike down there is hazardous even by Phuket standards. Motorbikes driving on the pavement going South, low hanging wires mainly on the pavement but if you are driving and a motorbike rider gets pulled of their bike and the bikes goes into you this is just one of the perils. But we love Phuket it is part of the charm, if it was like the West we would go else where.
Posted by Fiesty Farang on June 23, 2014 18:50