New highway planned from Hua Hin to bypass?

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Nereus wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:09 pm
hhinner wrote:North is at the top on these maps (the sea is on the right). Isn't that the usual way?
Yes it is. In this case it is probably a lot more clear if you have the full size drawing in front of you, but even more so if North was displayed. The comments posted have mostly referred to the Pala-U Road, which does nothing towards indicating just where this proposed road is going to be. :cheers:
People are mentioning Pala-U because the OP said "an intersection as the Rd climbs the hill at the 'Elephant temple' area"

So I was assuming the 4 lanes into town would follow Pala-U road down to town. I can't tell from the maps posted though.
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As I read it, the 4 lanes go down the road that passes dinosaur market to the canal road.
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But is it going to happen, has anyone actually been able to determine that. A new major road across all that virgin land could cost millions of USD dollars
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usual suspect wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:25 amA planned 6-lane highway coming towards town from the bypass!eeding into town & the last lanes peeling off South..
The new map doesn't show any changes to the Palu-U Road at all and the above didn't make much sense to me - why have a 6 lane highway if the road you are coming from only has 4? Currently it manages perfectly well with 2, albeit a pain if caught behind really slow vehicles. But much of it is already has 4 lanes, so I guess getting rid of the bottlenecks makes sense.
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The Pala u rd looks to be 4 lanes and has a number of new roundabouts.......if it goes ahead!

It is now been announced regularly on our community loud speaker thingy that wakes you up in the mornings
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The Pala u rd looks to be 4 lanes and has a number of new roundabouts......
Just what is needed to stop any confusion!
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I wouldn’t worry .....we will all be driving flying cars by the time they get round to raising the money and bribing everyone!
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I was talking to a neighbour (who owns his house but is a regular but infrequent visitor) about this yesterday and he was saying that plans had been approved and his place was on the route and would be compulsory purchased. The immediate neighbour he said would also be affected as would our house. We rent and have heard nothing from the owners or the immediate neighbour who we see frequently.
I can read maps but cannot determine exactly where the planned road will join the Pala U road and more relevant to me, how it will affect the Phutawan/Kirinakara area.
Previous posts have said that the large map can be viewed at the Hin Lek Fai administration office. Where is this or the other place it can be seen and is there any clear map with an overlay that would make it easier to see exactly what properties will be affected. I guess that this will not happen for a while but regardless would prefer not to rely on second hand information or wait to be suddenly told that I would have to move. The last post on this was a while ago so has anyone heard any updates (okay, second hand info but it gives me something to start with).
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Gregjam wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:43 pm I was talking to a neighbour (who owns his house but is a regular but infrequent visitor) about this yesterday and he was saying that plans had been approved and his place was on the route and would be compulsory purchased. The immediate neighbour he said would also be affected as would our house. We rent and have heard nothing from the owners or the immediate neighbour who we see frequently.
I can read maps but cannot determine exactly where the planned road will join the Pala U road and more relevant to me, how it will affect the Phutawan/Kirinakara area.
Previous posts have said that the large map can be viewed at the Hin Lek Fai administration office. Where is this or the other place it can be seen and is there any clear map with an overlay that would make it easier to see exactly what properties will be affected. I guess that this will not happen for a while but regardless would prefer not to rely on second hand information or wait to be suddenly told that I would have to move. The last post on this was a while ago so has anyone heard any updates (okay, second hand info but it gives me something to start with).
We own a house at Mongkol Resort, and in the beginning of the year we were called to a meeting about the planned 2 new roads. If I understood it correctly, the 6 lane highway was planned so it would go on the south side of Mongkol Resort (on the mountain slope) and would affect only a couple of properties.....apart from the noise and pollution. Whereas the ring road would cut right through to middle of the resort, meaning that the houses on the 2 most northern soi's would be demolished. and (again if I understood it correctly) both Mon Mai and the Khiri Nakara areas would be affected by the ring road. One of the problems with the governments planning here was, that the original owner of the whole of Mongkol Resort never informed the authorities about that he had sold approx. 100 plots and it was now a residential area...he is still a major owner in the resort....So on the government's maps it is a agricultural area, so easy to plan a road through "the pineapple field"....The reason for the owner not changing = Tax avoidance.
All of the owners appealed against the plans, by filling in complaint form with attached pictures of the actual properties and delivered them to the planning office in Prachuap.
We have a very competent and influential Thai in charge of our appeals, so I doubt very much, that anything have been approved without us being informed....(?)
As for going to the Hin Lek Fai office...we did it....Either they didn't know, what we were talking about or they had no interest in sharing it with us....Complete waste of time.
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Be sure to tell your children and grandchildren about all this--they may be affected.
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An interesting response from T.O.M. in many ways. Anywhere else I would be asking why houses built presumably with planning permission and land deeds registered with the appropriate department have not registered on a government database which in turn would attract the attention of the tax authorities. It is obviously too much work for the authorities involved to look at google maps satellite image to see the development in the area. One wonders if the two new developments to the south of the derelict golf range are going to be affected.
It could also be suggested that anywhere else tax evasion by not declaring assets would incur large fines. Kirinakara is also an example of irregular actions by management with the site beginning to improve only through residents action. As the areas discussed here are only a small part of the total which will be affected by this road one can only wonder at how much funny business will be unearthed or buried as the case may be.
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Below the video of the Department of Highway which gives further insight to the planned 'Super Highway'. Unfortunately only available in Thai, however a lot is self-explanatory.



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Nice presentation but it's about Rama 2 road from Bangkok to Pak To.
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Sorry, thought it was the whole project. However I think at 2:13 (green highway) is the new highway passing Hua Hin. If it is not relevant, mods please delete.

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Ah, OK. The green road is shown as special highway 8, Nakhon Pathom to Cha-Am. Don't recall hearing it mentioned in the commentary though. Maybe there's another video about it.
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