Nongprue residents are calling on sub-district officials to immediately crack down on speeders on Pattanakarn Road, claiming the thoroughfare has become a death trap since it reopened last year.
Nongprue widened the four-kilometer roadway to eight meters, resurfaced and rebuilt its drainage system in a 44.6-million-baht project that, when begun in October 2015, was supposed to last nine months. It dragged on until January 2017.
Since then, residents claim, there have been several deaths and many more accidents and injuries due to speeding vehicles. There are several markets along the route, putting pedestrians in danger.
Complainants want, at the minimum, new signs, but believe speed bumps and traffic lights may be the only way for wannabe MotoGP motorcyclists and F1 car drivers to slow down on the smooth, wide road.
