Pattaya: Tram network set to transform resort - less traffic, less accidents, more convenience promised

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

He has promised less traffic, less accidents, and more convenience for tourists and residents alike.

Only if there's a huge barrier keeping normal traffic separated from the tram lane!

[Mac98]

Proper wording would be "Less traffic, fewer accidents... "

[Rainsberger]

A new tramline system won't be much cop until they sort out the drainage and flooding first that should be the priority first.

[thaimelody]

Someone is making serious cash from these "studies". Didn't Chiang Mai have a tram study last year?

[bluesofa]

24 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Ah, we're going to have public toilets at last!

Do trams have toilets ?

They'll be left with nothing to go on.

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, kingofthemountain said:

The solution to this real problem is pretty easy

Only two things are easy in this place, one is a feed, the other starts with an f too! 

[Captain 776]

Cart before the horse.

They need an experienced Urban Planning Engineering firm.
First.......go from Beach Road to the dark side of Sukhumvit and completely upgrade every utility and put all wires in duct banks underground.

Install all new storm drainage with pump stations  and treatment plants to end flooding.

Sooooo much must be done first before any Tram system is needed.

 

[Pedrogaz]

Will the tram system be completed more quickly that the underpass at Pattaya Klang? 

[BWPattaya]

Which group is this aimed at? The Chinese tour busses will have to park somewhere to allow tourists to board, and they won’t like having to pay. The Indians won’t pay. 
I think it is doomed before it starts. 

[Number 6]

Will have to be a monorail well above the road. When I lived there in early 00s the flooding in central Pattaya was 1.5m easy.

 

Pattaya doesn't need this. It needs smart people to rethink the traffic flow of the city and set hard rules.

 

It needs anti flooding and anti crime initiatives. Pattaya total mafia.

[Destiny1990]

By the time its running most of us in wheelchairs or death.

[Iem]

Trolley buses would at least be able to move round the obstacles which would inevitably appear from time to time on a rail system but would be just as useless in the floods as ground level rail systems .

[mike787]

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

YEP!!!!!!!

[cyril sneer]

33 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

By the time its running most of us in wheelchairs or death.

and possibly Islamizised

[wgdanson]

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

Try this one for measure

 

 

There's a difference between a real photo and an artists' impression.

[wgdanson]

29 minutes ago, Iem said:

Trolley buses would at least be able to move round the obstacles which would inevitably appear from time to time on a rail system but would be just as useless in the floods as ground level rail systems .

Overhead monorail, like Disneyworld then.

[wgdanson]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder how long it would be for the first car/tram accident to happen?

Maybe have something to wake the tram diver up when he goes to kip.

Let's face it, a tram only goes in one dimension, go and stop, the rest is determined by the tracks

[toenail]

I still think Pattaya should be zoned by the government as a “gaming area” which means casinos.  The revenue would certainly speed up building this  city tram system. 

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder how long it would be for the first car/tram accident to happen?

Maybe have something to wake the tram diver up when he goes to kip.

Oh dear, I suppose that means we could well see the 'usual excuses' - brakes failed, fell asleep at the wheel.

Plus, 'wheels ran over something obstructing the track' - rat, dog, ferang, baht bus.

[Pattaya46]

2 hours ago, Darkside Gray said:

Where are they going to park the cars that will not be able transit in pattaya

Cities are not made for cars, and will accept less and less cars in the future. 

Several big western cities already have plans to nearly get rid of (nearly) all cars. 

This will also happen in Thailand.

[Max69xl]

1 hour ago, OffshoreMig said:

They could fix the baht bus-network for that price much cheaper,  Color code it and add more routes. Tram will cause cnogestion.

The Tram will never replace baht-buses. 

[Caine]

Advice save your money Pattaya is washed up. 

[Soikhaonoiken]

8 hours ago, seasia said:

Pattaya   Hub of plans

 

8 hours ago, mok199 said:

This worn out old promis

I do believe this story was run last year and the year before last...

All talk.... They talked about this tram system over 10yrs ago, and did the study, to run along beach road to walking St and down 2nd in a loop, then deciding it was not feasible, so don't hold your breath as nothing will change..... 

[kevvy]

8 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

been that way a for long long time .`Raw sewage everywhere

[White Christmas13]

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

There's a difference between a real photo and an artists' impression.

A modern low-floor E class tram, as used on the Melbourne network.

 

Still not satisfied?

[fire2rescue99]

Does anyone know where the hi-speed train station that this tram will be connected to will be? 

[wgdanson]

12 minutes ago, fire2rescue99 said:

Does anyone know where the hi-speed train station that this tram will be connected to will be? 

I very much doubt it. Not even the designers!

[baansgr]

The tram drivers will still carry, machetes, swords or guns so no improvement

[jonnit]

 

The 1st thing I noticed in the drawing was that you must board from the center of the road, and no handicap provisions are shown.

[IvorLott]

Wasn't a monorail proposed around five-ten years ago?

 

My concerns about this is that the 'taxi/Baht Bus/Motorbike taxi Mafia' will block this and any threat to their criminal monopoly of the transport 'infrastructure' so I doubt the project will ever get off the table while public officials rake in millions of Baht holding endless nose-picking meetings, pressers and so on before declaring the project as 'insupportable' after a few years. 

 

Pattaya does certainly need a decent public transport network, easy to use for locals and visitors alike. I know people who have been there, or visitors for years and still haven't sussed out the baht bus routes, so a decent MRT system will be a real boon to the resort.