An underground tunnel for the MRT’s Blue Line extension remains intact even though a part of the road above it collapsed in Bangkok’s Chinatown area yesterday.
At about 2am yesterday, a bit of the road surface on Charoenkrung Road in front of the Leng Noei Yi Temple (Wat Mangkorn Kammalawat) subsided, leaving a crater at the construction site of the MRT Blue Line’s extension route.
“The crater was about 25 centimeters deep initially, but I ordered workers to dig deeper to find out what caused the collapse,” construction supervisor Kamol Mahaphon said.
After digging further, his team found that huge water leaks had weakened the area, the Nation reported.
