N 16 Travelling to Taunggyi 2012

While travelling to Taunggyi this year I noted three remarkable things.

• ²  Deforestation
• ²  The situation of the road
• ²  Motor cycles

I have written and posted about deforestation in my facebook N 6 and will not write about it again.

As for the situation of the road it is good as far as Meikhtila junction because it is the Yangon-Mandalay Highway.But instead of tar road it is only cement road, which causes bursting of tyres and are prone to accidents.

The Meikhtila Taunggyi road is 116 miles long and some parts of it go over hills and mountains. Whenever I cross this road I always see repairing and maintaining works but they are never completed. This year the road is repaired well past Yinmarbin and Pyin-nyaung. We saw many cement factories in Pyin-nyaung and so I thought maybe they are repairing the road to transport the raw materials and cement to and from the factories. But anyway it is good if the road is completed.

But after Pyin-nyaung we encountered many unfinished, rough parts which are still under repair. So it is still worth the name I give it, which is ‘The never finished Meikhtila Taunggyi Road’.

We consoled ourselves that when we come back after one or two months it may be finished. But when the rain comes some parts of the newly constructed road will be washed away, and holes and rough surface will appear again, so that repairing will become an unending work.

I wish that the road we from the Southern and also the Eastern Shan States are using is completed with no need to repair anymore.

If the government lacks the technique to build good roads by itself why don’t they seek help from anywhere who knows how to do it well. Only then there will be an ending to the repairing cycle and thus save the country’s budget used on repairing roads.