Pattaya: "New Lung" for Jomtien as beautiful park nears completion - open in July

[webfact]

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Sophon Cable TV quoted Pattaya's mayor as saying that a new park in Jomtien is just about 100% complete.

 

The Soi Chaiyapreuk 4 Nong Pong park will be a "new lung" for Jomtien residents, said the media on Facebook.

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Work began on transforming the area in the middle of last year at a cost of 32 million baht.

 

All that remains to be done is the electrics and a fitness area, said mayor Sontaya Khunplome. 

 

The park is expected to open its doors in July. 

 

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Pictures: Sophon Cable TV

[keith101]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Soi Chaiyapreuk 4 Nong Pong park will be a "new lung" for Jomtien residents, said the media on Facebook.

A new lung would be a park full of big trees not water .

[redwood1]

2 things I notice from these pictures.....

 

#1.......Zero park benches.......

 

#2....Zero Shade trees........

 

As I was fully expecting loads of Palm trees.....

 

They LOVE LOVE LOVE palm trees and plant them everywhere these days.....And they HATE HATE HATE shade trees and cut them down at every opportunity.......

Also  they really really Hate park benches too......

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by redwood1

[tlandtday]

10 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

2 things I notice from these pictures.....

 

#1.......Zero park benches.......

 

#2....Zero Shade trees........

 

As I was fully expecting loads of Palm trees.....

 

They LOVE LOVE LOVE palm trees and plant them everywhere these days.....And they HATE HATE HATE shade trees and cut them down at every opportunity.......

Also  they really really Hate park benches too......

 

 

yeah what was the real cost about 10 million baht at best I wonder where ther rest went

[tlandtday]

Like that park near bali high they built the guy putting it in was saying phuket would be jealous what a joke has anyone seen it or actually used it nothing more than a big sidewalk with a few non shade easily managed palm trees lol

Edited May 13, 2021 by tlandtday

[Pilotman]

By the time they have let soi dogs roam the place without control it will end up like the park in Sattahip, mostly unkept, rubbish everywhere and dangerous. 

[tlandtday]

1 minute ago, Pilotman said:

By the time they have let soi dogs roam the place without control it will end up like the park in Sattahip, mostly unkept, rubbish everywhere and dangerous. 

doesn't matter someone got a new merc lol

[tlandtday]

1 minute ago, tlandtday said:

packs of wild dogs most likely... 

 

[Susco]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Pictures: Sophon Cable TV

 

Looks like they had to dig up the path at one side already, even before completion

[AlfHuy]

Call it  "the new world hub of lungs".

[AlfHuy]

Work began on transforming the area in the middle of last year at a cost of 32 million baht.

 

All that remains to be done is the electrics and a fitness area, said mayor Sontaya Khunplome. 

 

The park is expected to open its doors in July. 

 

32 Million was the amount the tax payer was charged.

Real cost was 2 Million and rest admin fees.

Friend Jojo told me.

[Cake Monster]

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

A new lung would be a park full of big trees not water .

How original

Looks exactly the same as the Park behind the Nong Prue School by the Motorway entrance.

And unless properly policed will be just the same in other respects.

A Tip.

[johng]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

All that remains to be done is the electrics

[Chelseafan]

Whats the point of a new "lung" when Pattaya has already lost its heart and soul..

[Destiny1990]

No fences against these dangerous dirty stray dogs? Benches, tables, shades? 

[Senechal]

I promise you there won't be a single trash bin anywhere to be seen.

[Katipo]

Not that I disagree with any of the posters above, but it's still better than nothing.

[sharecropper]

Another City Hall-Nong Nooch tree-rental/maintenance contract 'scheme' no doubt.

[tyga]

Like others said, the latest generation of decision makers here, have an aversion to anything approaching natural looking, chrome, concrete and palm trees is beautiful in their eyes. Tasteless and no ecological value whatsoever.  Just don't get me started on the so called improvements to the Sukhimvit Road from Jomtien to Sattahip and beyond, trees ripped out, grass removed, lily ponds filled in, trees cut down, and replaced with hot reflective concrete surfaces. The fact is that once upon a time, not so long ago, Jomtien had wonderful biodiverse habitats and was a so called 'lung' wetland which was all filled in due to greed and shortsightedness.  Sad!

[tlandtday]

11 minutes ago, tyga said:

Like others said, the latest generation of decision makers here, have an aversion to anything approaching natural looking, chrome, concrete and palm trees is beautiful in their eyes. Tasteless and no ecological value whatsoever.  Just don't get me started on the so called improvements to the Sukhimvit Road from Jomtien to Sattahip and beyond, trees ripped out, grass removed, lily ponds filled in, trees cut down, and replaced with hot reflective concrete surfaces. The fact is that once upon a time, not so long ago, Jomtien had wonderful biodiverse habitats and was a so called 'lung' wetland which was all filled in due to greed and shortsightedness.  Sad!

The natureal environment here would lend itself to rich vegeataion and beauty if they let it but everything is ripped down, paved an covered in concrete. Phuket has 200 times the beauty because they didn't rip away what the tourists came here for - lush greenery and good beaches.  Even Bangkok looks like an oasis comparted to Pattaya.

[clivebaxter]

48 minutes ago, Katipo said:

Not that I disagree with any of the posters above, but it's still better than nothing.

Better than brothels pretending to be bars, massage joints pretending to offer massage and the whole town pretending there is no prostitution there ????

[TooBigToFit]

3 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Call it  "the new world hub of lungs".

 

Or The Big Lug

[Orinoco]

1 hour ago, Senechal said:

I promise you there won't be a single trash bin anywhere to be seen.

What,!!!!!   open your eyes man, 

it's right smack in the middle of the park.  LOL.

TIT.

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by Orinoco

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

Whats the point of a new "lung" when Pattaya has already lost its heart and soul..

Ah, soul.......

[jacko45k]

56 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

Even Bangkok looks like an oasis comparted to Pattaya.

What, walking under the concrete overhead railways and highways.

[Emdog]

4 hours ago, redwood1 said:

2 things I notice from these pictures.....

 

#1.......Zero park benches.......

 

#2....Zero Shade trees........

 

As I was fully expecting loads of Palm trees.....

 

They LOVE LOVE LOVE palm trees and plant them everywhere these days.....And they HATE HATE HATE shade trees and cut them down at every opportunity.......

Also  they really really Hate park benches too......

 

 

Amen to that. Here is photo of last time they mucked up beach road I came across today...

[Burma Bill]

Does not look that convenient for relaxation in a waterside deck chair!

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, keith101 said:

A new lung would be a park full of big trees not water .

It will be full of plastic bags soon... don't worry.

[jacko45k]

26 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

It will be full of plastic bags soon... don't worry.

And an old sofa and a few dumped spirit houses. 

[Darkside Gray]

1 hour ago, clivebaxter said:

Better than brothels pretending to be bars, massage joints pretending to offer massage and the whole town pretending there is no prostitution there ????

Sure you are talking about Jomtiem?