Adunlayadet Road

[BobHelm]

Best to avoid for the next couple of hours.
This object is blocking the end near Nong Sim, causing diversions & tail backs.
Not sure exactly what it is doing there though!!

[parrot]

According to the municipality website, the electric company is trimming the huge tree at that intersection. The trimming should be finished today.

[stattointhailand]

Looks a bit OTT just to trim a tree Whatever happened to the guy on the bamboo ladder with the machete?

[BobHelm]

Aah, it is not just any old tree at that junction, it is a monster (rubber ??) tree that stretches into the sky.

If anything remains of it, I will photograph tomorrow for you Statts..

[BobHelm]

All newly given a short back & sides..
To give you some idea of its' size, the building below it to its' right is a 3 story shophouse on the same level..

[pal52]

Nice photo Bob.
Look at the electric poles completely overloaded with probably redundant junk wiring.
They look as though they are ready to fall down.

[parrot]

The tree is a protected type......called yang nha (ยางนา). My wife tells me they were common when she was young.......now, unfortunately, few are left. I think it takes an act of God to cut one down....even when blocking a new roadway.

[stattointhailand]

" I think it takes an act of God to cut one down....even when blocking a new roadway."

Ahhh that would be the Thai version of the Londoners "Act of Boris" where anyone with enough money or contacts could go and get any preservation order overturned

[fdimike]

Don't really need an act of god just a good reason as several were removed during the Ban Phuea road ( road #2021) widening project which is only partially completed.

[tamada]

Don't really need an act of god just a good reason as several were removed during the Ban Phuea road ( road #2021) widening project which is only partially completed.

...and is why like highway 2024, it will probably always be in a state of perpetual partial completion.

Tree spirits.... gotta love 'em.