Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
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Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
Having only recently returned to HH...I cannot believe the poor state of the road from Hua Hin all the way to (& past) Black Mountain..Road users beware, there are so many nasty deep potholes & lots of loose gravel all the way along!
It does rather seem like a fair slice of the road-budget has been used up around Huay Mongkol/Big buddha area..it now has great wide tarmac stretches with hardly any traffic to warrant the upgrade..oh well TiT.
It does rather seem like a fair slice of the road-budget has been used up around Huay Mongkol/Big buddha area..it now has great wide tarmac stretches with hardly any traffic to warrant the upgrade..oh well TiT.
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Re: Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
BM are roads are becoming shocking, I am surprised BM golf course, water park etc. don't make high level complaints. It is the same in front of the court house on Soi 88 and going further up the hill. Treacherous on a motorbike especially when dark.
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I cycle along this road regularly and am glad of my full suspension mountain bike. Lots of heavy vehicles and no maintenance have made this road treacherous. The section just before big boom heading from town must be frightening for the expensive car owners collecting their kids from the international school, even the 4x4’s have to go slowly there and are all over the road to avoid the potholes. There is a Bangkok Post golf event soon at BM so perhaps it will lead to some repairs or maybe it will take the next PGA event for something to be done. Money usually speaks loudly here.
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That is also on my daily cycle route and it was in pretty good condition until they excavated another big hole out of the hillside on the right after the wakeboard course earlier this year. Over a month or so, the road got completely destroyed by all the trucks removing the spoil.
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Re: Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
This reflects on the basic construction of this and most roads in Thailand - they simply don’t make them to a standard that will withstand the 30 tonne trucks pounding them all day longSTEVE G wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:39 am That is also on my daily cycle route and it was in pretty good condition until they excavated another big hole out of the hillside on the right after the wakeboard course earlier this year. Over a month or so, the road got completely destroyed by all the trucks removing the spoil.
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IMO the biggest problem is when minor repairs to a pot hole are done, they just dump asphalt from the back of a truck and drive off, no preparation/cleaning of the hole, no rolling and compaction after .
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In my opinion, the situation was worsened when somebody filled the holes with stone chippings. As well as windscreen hazards, the small stone chips have ground away on small holes, making them into big holes.
Earlier in the year, the Tessebahn promised to start work when the new road budget was known in October - of course, they didn't say which year.
Earlier in the year, the Tessebahn promised to start work when the new road budget was known in October - of course, they didn't say which year.
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The road in question is in Hin Lek Fai consisting of sub-district Hin Lek Fai, falls under Sub district administrative organization, not the Tessebahn, that seems to be the problem.Big Boy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:55 am In my opinion, the situation was worsened when somebody filled the holes with stone chippings. As well as windscreen hazards, the small stone chips have ground away on small holes, making them into big holes.
Earlier in the year, the Tessebahn promised to start work when the new road budget was known in October - of course, they didn't say which year.
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Re: Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
I'll try to find the article that contained what I remember as a Tessebahn promise - it wouldn't be the first time I've got it wrong .
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There we go, the old grey cells letting me down again . However, it was reported that the October pledge was made:
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I've driven the road twice today, and am pleased to report they've undertaken very temporary repairs, but the road was drivable.
It is still only just better than the surface of the moon, and one decent shower will wash the work away again, but a vast improvement.
It is still only just better than the surface of the moon, and one decent shower will wash the work away again, but a vast improvement.
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Re: Poor state of the Hua Hin-Black Mountain road
Rode and drove parts from Hua Hin out to Ban Wang Bost and while, as Big Boy says patching has been done in the section once you are over the hill (and into Hin Lek Fai’s administration area?) the section just past Da Vinci school is deteriorating fast. In the places where it has been patched it looks like bags of tar have just been thrown into the potholes. Will it last until Bangkok Posts golf tournament this Friday?
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That's exactly what I said previously, sadly the workers appear to have no skills, training or supervision so it ends up as a temporary fix for 12 months max.
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