So they reclaim the beach to build more roads?
They keep losing sight of the fact that you can't interfer with beaches and oceans without concequences.
Sand migrates many km up and down (I think around 100km) the shore line. Once you start 'playing' around with shore lines there's bound to be tears.
Looks great now, so let's widen the road, but, if you look at the origional bay shoreline pictures that's how it was and will end up, without massive money spends. Not just Pattaya Beach, but say 100km up and down the coast.
Next we can cut down the trees and put in an elivated tram/train track, then expand the beach and put in more trees, then ....