Second Ring Road Plans

Post by **WhoUrDaddy** » May 7, 2013, 10:32 am

It would work if people used the overpass instead of the road below. I see lots of cars just following the road without turning left before the overpass ends.

So true. I used to live on the other side of the overpass, and it was a welcomed addition. The intersection below is one of the deadliest in Udon, and the overpass a nice stress and time saver. It is used quite heavily during rush hour, and the congestion below would be 10 times if the overpass wasn't available.

Nong Khai rd next, and it will probably be the same corruption ridden, delayed project. But very welcomed when completed.

2nd ring rd is an excellent idea, and will actually function as a by-pass, if not obsolete by the time it's done. The ever expanding city is amazing.

On the 'how close to Phen' question, the 'proposed' 2nd ring rd will be above the lakes, but just below the 2021 / Nk rd intersection. Less than 10 kms off the present ring rd. Hope that helps

Post by **merchant seaman** » May 7, 2013, 11:08 am

Second ring road would neither hinder nor help me. Could really care less how they waste their money. Seems to be more money being spent by the Gov't in Issan then any where else in the country.

Post by **parrot** » May 7, 2013, 12:13 pm

The link at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater
shows the latest presentation at a city planning meeting........proposed second ring road along with the high speed rail link.

I can't make out all the text on the map, but the upper left center blue circle says:
Udon University

The two lines pointing toward the green circle (inside the existing ring road) say:
Project to improve tungsrimeuang
Central city planning

The purple box on the south side says:
Industrial development area

The red box just above the Industrial development area says:
center point ring road 7 (???)

I can't make out all of the green dot just north of the existing ring road (Nongkai Hwy), but it's probably associated with the Agricultural School (พัฒนา)

Post by **bumper** » May 7, 2013, 12:51 pm

It's odd they run surveys and Thai's say corruption is OK. Their Country guess they can do it their way. So I suppose if it's not a problem to them then it shouldn't be to us.

So there must be enough money being spread around

Post by **parrot** » May 8, 2013, 8:40 am

The link shows the proposed second ring with km markers.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Post by **Prenders88** » May 8, 2013, 10:36 am

I just hope there are lots of transport cafes/greasy spoons, dotted around the second ring road serving decent egg and chips, and tea like Mother makes.

Post by **bumper** » May 8, 2013, 1:31 pm

Post by **parrot** » June 10, 2013, 7:26 pm

For anyone interested in planning for the second ring road....city planners continue to tweak the exact location.....the map below is as detailed as any I've seen.

Also discussed were plans to move the city prison to a location behind the Agricultural College....160 rai plot. What to do with the existing location? Possibly a city park or room for the Provincial Courthouse to spread out.

http://www.udon-today.com/2013/index.ph ... &Itemid=54

Post by **Prenders88** » June 10, 2013, 7:59 pm

Parrot,

What are those areas outlined in orange?

Post by **parrot** » June 10, 2013, 8:47 pm

The East side one says "Rahjapat" (University). The upper left one says "Udon City". As best I can tell, the lower one is something to do with the military (ทหาร)....but can't read it clearly.

Post by **KHONDAHM** » June 11, 2013, 4:10 am

parrot wrote:Also discussed were plans to move the city prison to a location behind the Agricultural College....160 rai plot. What to do with the existing location? Possibly a city park or room for the Provincial Courthouse to spread out.

...or possibly Udon's first skyscraper!!! [-o< $\:D/$

Parks and courthouses don't generate the revenue a skyscraper would. Udon needs one to truly graduate from a city to a modern metropolitan area.

Makes me giddy to hear a confirmation they are moving the prison!

Post by **FrazeeDK** » June 11, 2013, 4:32 am

the outlined area to the south of Udon is the old Ramasun Thai military base and the Thai artillery unit and road construction unit which is on the east side of Rte 2 across from the Udon Regional Cancer institute and the Nursing School.

Post by **redwolf** » October 31, 2013, 9:17 pm

another pic...

Post by **Khun Paul** » November 1, 2013, 6:00 am

I would have thought if one was going to move the prison, also move the criminal courthouse, any moves to end the debacle along that road would be a bonus, what with the schools etc, it is possibly one of the most crowded roads in the morning and afternoon in Udon, nowhere to park, when I had to visit the court in assistance to a friend I had to park some 5 blocks away and walk and that was at 11am in the morning.

Post by **FrazeeDK** » November 1, 2013, 8:42 am

a Thai actually parked 5 blocks away and walked to the courthouse?? What, no double or triple parking??

Post by **pompui** » April 14, 2014, 4:27 pm

All this talk about roads and still no update on when the new prison will be built

Post by **parrot** » April 14, 2014, 7:12 pm

Last I saw was a report in Oct 2013 that discussed plans to move it to Kut Sa.....https://maps.google.co.th/maps?q=%E0%B8 ... CCkQ8gEwAA
But the area under consideration is a major water retention area so it would require considerable landfill. Not to mention the current state of the government......I'd guess big projects like this are on the back burner.
http://udonechamber.com/home/journal-ch ... -4142.html

Post by **bumper** » April 15, 2014, 7:53 am

Unless the plan is to make is for it to grow like Bangkok don't really see much use of it. The current ring road can get busy. But downtown is where the real problems are. But, who know where the future will take things.I was surprised this year with the amount of road work we saw on our rides. Just about everywhere we went roads were at least being repaired, or widened. I would think that would be out of this years budget.

Post by **parrot** » April 7, 2016, 3:15 pm

The photo below is the latest in discussions about road expansion around the outer parts of Udon.

Post by **FrazeeDK** » April 7, 2016, 9:04 pm

it looks like the basic plans for the outer ring road haven't changed much in the last coup of years.. The question of course, is when?? I'd say the eastern portion of the outer ring road would be the highest priority as completion of that would divert a huge amount of Nong Khai and Saknon Nakhon bound traffic away from the Udon east-side inner ring road. Some of the other connector roads shown in the map also would be beneficial.. I'm sure that if the routes are nailed down speculators have bought up much of the land on and beside the projected routes to line their pockets...

As for the inner Udon traffic mess I don't think there's any real solution.. The city was just not designed for the traffic load it has today. Perhaps a modern computerized traffic light system that automatically tracks traffic flow and controls it accordingly would help but in the mornings and evenings the road system is totally overloaded.