Rimmer Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Drivers advised to avoid Pattaya Beach Road until next year PATTAYA:--With all the construction going on around town, and all the traffic snarls it’s causing, it might be a bit disheartening to learn that city hall has announced the work will not be completed until next year. As reported last month when complaints rained in to city hall, along with requests to limit construction to one area at a time, city hall countered that it received a 95 million baht budget for various projects from laying drainage pipes to burying electricity lines and that the budget must be spent. This has resulted in roads being dug up, holes left with barriers, and lanes closed in a patchwork of projects that leaves no area free of congestion. Read more: https://www.pattayamail.com/featured/drivers-advised-to-avoid-pattaya-beach-road-until-next-year-264055 -- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-09-12-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksidedog Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Well that's Thailand for you. No planning, no co-ordination, just plough ahead and use that budget ASAP (along with a skim off the top no doubt), and to hell with the inconvenience it creates. It wouldn't be so bad if you could have any confidence that any of the projects would actually be successful in providing long term solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 After closing the hole Make the road just max one lane and give the whole beachfront area back to the pedestrians and the cyclists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Another dirty brown hole on Beach rd .. and that sign in the background " smoke free " .! Well blow me that'll be a first .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I've lost count of the number of times Beach Road has been dug up to replace drainage in the last 30 years. I got the hell out of Dodge (y) City years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 48 minutes ago, Rimmer said: Drivers advised to avoid Pattaya Beach Road until next year Oh buugger! I haven't got enough sandwiches in the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Yep, perfect. After they recently dug up and "expanded" the street, now did it up again. Bury cables, but god forbid install a working and proper sewage and waste water system with treatment plants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I remember back in oh 2005 or so there were flower beds on the northern end of the sidewalk there. The park benches were all along the sidewalk and nice to sit and pause for a rest on. The sea wall had that walk way you could use and wander north to wong mat. Year after year just worst and more money spent. Hack and butcher job on the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 12 hours ago, Rimmer said: This has resulted in roads being dug up, And filled with drunk motorcyclists..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 When will this world class resort be finished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 21 minutes ago, mikebell said: When will this world class resort be finished? I get the impression it's finished already - judging by the number of reports about the lack of tourists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essox essox Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 18 hours ago, bluesofa said: Oh buugger! I haven't got enough sandwiches in the car. buy food of the street vendors....they sell allsorts of **rap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 brewery up pee organise springs to mind regarding our wonderful city hall planning department............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwan Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 . . . and don't even think about having a stroll along Jomtien Beach Road - nowhere to sit and tarry awhile. ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toenail Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Totally an example of an incompetent city government that is to busy pocketing money from city projects and hiring the least qualified people to do the job. I do see well run municipals in smaller towns in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaGuy2019 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Please please can we have public toilets and baby changing facilities that are a basic requirement of any beach resort and it would be nice if they put back some seats so us oldies can take a rest in our walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 minute ago, PattayaGuy2019 said: Please please can we have public toilets and baby changing facilities that are a basic requirement of any beach resort and it would be nice if they put back some seats like a normal resort has. Ha ha ha! This isn't a normal beach resort. It's a world class beach resort. Although judging by all the spin they put on it, it would be better described as a whirled class beach resort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 13 minutes ago, PattayaGuy2019 said: public toilets and baby changing facilities That's what all the shopping malls are for... + one for putting the benches back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 42 minutes ago, PattayaGuy2019 said: Please please can we have public toilets and baby changing facilities that are a basic requirement of any beach resort and it would be nice if they put back some seats so us oldies can take a rest in our walk. I agree. However, based on past observation, any such facility would slide into decay and be unfit for its intended use. I plan my day with intake and output to be well within access to the necessary facilities. As for basic baby changing facilities, that would be nice, but I doubt any such thing would last very long before neglect took its toll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 22 hours ago, Destiny1990 said: After closing the hole Make the road just max one lane and give the whole beachfront area back to the pedestrians and the cyclists. Beach Road, drainage etc., It would be interesting to see how many times large drainage projects have been done in the last 30 years, and the cost and most of these projects achieved nothing. My guess is large drainage projects about 10 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyboy2018 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 23 hours ago, Destiny1990 said: After closing the hole Make the road just max one lane and give the whole beachfront area back to the pedestrians and the cyclists. Yeah make it a walking street and public transport only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyboy2018 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Benmart said: I agree. However, based on past observation, any such facility would slide into decay and be unfit for its intended use. I plan my day with intake and output to be well within access to the necessary facilities. As for basic baby changing facilities, that would be nice, but I doubt any such thing would last very long before neglect took its toll. No to baby changing facilities. Just a politically correct fad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Meanwhile, in Japan... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/japan-fixes-vast-fukuoka-city-sinkhole-repaired-two-days Quote In a typical demonstration of Japanese workmanship and efficiency, workers toiled around the clocks and had practically filled in the section of road in just two days, according to local media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geisha Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 It would be so easy to ban all parking on second road for a start and then you could drive both directions with no hassle. There’s enough width as long as there is no obstruction. Beach road, one way towards walking street. No parking, big prom . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanuman2547 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 On 9/12/2019 at 3:21 AM, PatOngo said: I've lost count of the number of times Beach Road has been dug up to replace drainage in the last 30 years. I got the hell out of Dodge (y) City years ago! You are correct! Tearing up Beach Road seems to be a ritual that occurs every few years. The issue is it is always for the same thing, to put in new drainage pipes. Does no one in the Thai government ever question this misappropriation of funds? What's worse is that they are doing it right during the height of the tourist season. Just another way to kill off the low numbers of tourists already planning to go somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePioneer Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 44 minutes ago, Hanuman2547 said: Tearing up Beach Road seems to be a ritual that occurs every few years. The issue is it is always for the same thing, to put in new drainage pipes. I have from a reliable source that this time they gonna put the pipes at the right side of the road e.g the lower side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddic Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 11 hours ago, PattayaGuy2019 said: Please please can we have public toilets and baby changing facilities that are a basic requirement of any beach resort Perhaps you havent noticed that the desired "QUALITY" tourists don't require such things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddic Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 10 hours ago, johng said: That's what all the shopping malls are for... + one for putting the benches back. Bring the trees back for the shade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number 6 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 My suspicion is that they tore up the entire road but are actually only working on it in small sections. Thai thinking. When they are working on the city drainage maybe they want to disconnect the pipes that still dump raw sewage into the bay I'm certain this will be a huge high season draw. The nation is just one stupid plan after the next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 5 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said: Does no one in the Thai government ever question this misappropriation of funds? For obvious reasons, they tend to welcome it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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