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 "install CCTV and not delete recordings for a month so verified officers can check."

Boy! That's will go over big time "tea" specialists!  Brown envelopes will be issued as you walk into the go go bar by the hostess and she will show you where to drop off the envelopes when leaving.  This is going to be good!  HA HA

Can't keep Walking Street with the same, "special smell and flavor", and turn it into, "fit for families".  Get a grip, it is adult nightly entertainment, not disneyland!

The city officials can't have their cake and eat it too!  Either relocate these businesses with their present clients and rehab the place to whatever theme they desire or not, but to instantly convert it to a family friendly place with not bode well with the present business owners.  Just sayin'

#Life....Sex Matters!

"he added. "One million wealthy tourists will equal five million normal tourists." "  Well now we "average" tourists have been properly dismissed.  We served their purpose to get the pocketbooks filled now go away and let only the ultra wealthy come. 

News Flash!  The ultra wealthy will not come when they have places to visit or live that offer way better perks/lifestyle and they aren't bombarded with laws and rules changing like the weather.  Your "average" tourists are your meat and potatoes to your tourist economy; with them you have a steady and fairly smooth economy.  Without them you have highs and lows.

Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians......   Let's form a committee to investigate the committee that supposed to overlook the committee that is directing the committee to handle the debogle of the committee that was doing the opening of the bridge from Phuket.  

Maybe if enough people keep talking about positive change and opportunity for Pattaya then the people that pull the strings and make things happen will be listening.  It can't hurt.  So more, more, more.  Lets here thought ideas and thoughts!!!!!!

15 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Well, if true, we need more tissues to clean up all the spit around us.

Make it mandatory for all inbound travelers for that area to wear masks at all times.   So they can spit away!

3 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

That is all possible that someone might come up with this idea thinking it will save lives on the road. But sadly the side of the road they drive isn't the problem it is the lack of knowledge and proper execution of the laws they already have on the books add that with the lack of enforcement.

I can't argue with you about that!  You are so right!

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

They already do pal,,, some of them. 

LOL, and don't forget the sidewalks! Grin

14 hours ago, HHTel said:

The US with Trump and the Thai government here.  Are they any different?

CCP was in charge of taking control and stopping the original virus outbreak that spread throughout the world; Trump was not the person in charge of the that government....that is the difference. 

Collateral damage:  It is ok to spray bullets around is a 7/11 with shoppers inside just to nail a thief take took 100 bahts of goods.  Collateral damage is just the price innocent people have to pay.  After all we think we got the right guy that was the thief!   Me thinks it is a good time to not leave the building until cooler heads prevail.  Oh wait, where am I at again!?!  

9 hours ago, rayw said:

How totally misinformed that is.  I highly respect China for its responsible and efective actions in curbing the spread of this virus.  I think sadly for the good folk of the USA that the extreme Capitalist nonsense there and lack of affordeable or better free medical care will result in far more deaths there and possibly a terribel reulting sporead of this virus there.  So yes once the dust has settled I hope the world does condemn the USA (not China) for the lack of free medical care and available cheap or free necessary drugs and vaccines when they become available (already well in development (yes you guessed it in China where people come well before profits) . 

 

The USA of all people should have such a sensible free at source medical system there (similar to the UK or what we truly had in the UK before Thatcher !!) in the richest nation of the World, it is disgusting that they do not IMHO.  Only chance of putting that right is to ensure Sanders gets selected and then elected as a much needed decent US preisdent who puts people before greed and excess profits. Yes all people should have a choice but NOT simply just purchasing power !!!

WOW! rayw you are a complete China propaganda supporter/promoter aren't you? 

First. 

FACT:  China was NOT responsible in that they attacked their own doctor among doing other despicable deeds to their citizens, (later him dying from the very virus he tried to warn the government about), for talking about convid-19.  The government of China when to great links to suppress any reporting to their own people and to the world months before it was known that the virus was raging unchecked in China.  Even China's government didn't take their own situation seriously until it was way out of control and killing their citizens!

Second. 

FACT:  China does not put their citizens before profit; Look at what they are doing to their own people;  Organ harvesting for profit from prisoners and mass imprisoning and killing of their muslim citizens, (these are proven facts) this is just to name but a few of their human rights atrocities.   I don't know what bubble you have been living in, but China's government is for the upper elites and the money they rake in is NOT for the people; their standard way of doing things is: regular citizens are to be used, abused, and come in last.   

Third.

And furthermore, you nor I will know what will, (or will not), transpire within the USA and how they implement or how they will recover from this horrific tragedy.  It's just too early to tell.   But we do know for a FACT, if China's government, would have acted responsibly and warned the world sooner, that China had the convid-19 running loose and out of control in their country, there would be a lot less people catching the virus and a lot less deaths!   So I really think the world SHOULD look at the actions of China's government or lack thereof and take the appropriate steps to call them out on their stupidity and greed.

FACT:  The USA needs to have universal healthcare that I agree with you about.  And Bernie could be the man to do it, if he won the presidency. 

Stay safe and may your environment stay healthy!  Peace.....

STOP ALL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!  This means no small vans or 20 people piled into an SUV.  Stop the mass grouping of People!!!!

5 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome emptypockets....glad to be of service!

1 minute ago, Sametboy2019 said:

if Coronavirus and Mall shootings wasnt enough to put you off. 

Now your going to be charged for the risk.

It's like paying a cover charge to go into an attraction that has all the risks and thrills, however you might not make it back out and possibly become part of the show! Now that should get your adrenaline pumping if anything would!

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Surely this would be more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient tooperate

They have smaller/narrower sweeping/cleaning vehicles in Holland for use on the narrow streets there.  Perfect for the Soi. and tight to get places.  

15 minutes ago, DLock said:

 

The optimism of a Newbie brings a tear to my eye.

 

Dream on Newbie, we have all been where you are.

Thanks DLock!  I am glad you agree about my optimism!  We can always dream....LOL  Have a good one!????

Here is a few wild Thoughts to improve their tourism downturn:

1. Extend the visas with no charge for westerners up to a period of say 4 months
2. Do the simple visa changes/extensions over the internet instead of fighting the lines at immigration
3. Stop requiring tourists to register multiple times where they stay when they traveling around the country
4. In other words make it more welcoming, streamlined, and more hassle free for the western expats to come and visit and they might just seeing a mass increase in western tourism again.

Why not use the bags from Indonesia??  They are 100% made from plants and they dissolve in water!  Agreed, not all applications will work with this particular "plastic" bag but many would and it would save so much in pollution!

19 hours ago, brianthainess said:

More and more ugly concrete another huge heat sink and has any thought gone into disabled access ?   IMO a tram would be much better and as for the fare, they could, but wont, follow a few of the cities around the world to combat pollution Perth in OZ comes to mind free bus rides in the city center connecting to the train station.

It doesn't have to be ugly nor does it need to serve one purpose, ( see http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1235843/FULLTEXT02.pdf  for examples of design styles),  as far as disability access, that is an easy fix and something that is already used on modern elevated transport systems. I am not sure about being a heat sink if proper design and materials are used; the elevated structure would serve more as sun shielding and would be cooler below.  

If Thailand wanted too, it could make an elevated transport structure that would become a tourist attraction in itself by its pleasing aesthetic design along.