Beach Road zebra crossings repainted

[Rimmer]

Beach Road zebra crossings repainted

PATTAYA:--Pattaya workers repainted pedestrian crossings across Beach Road to prepare for high season.

 

Crews were seen Sept. 25 slapping a new coat of paint on to the “zebra crossings” following months of rain and use. Numerous people had called the Pattaya Contact Center to complain the lines were hard for motorists to see.

 

Few drivers have ever actually stopped for pedestrians on Beach Road, even when the traffic lights worked. But city workers remained optimistic, saying they’ll be out next to make repairs on the signals to help high season tourists remain safe.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-10-06

[Encid]

9 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Few drivers have ever actually stopped for pedestrians on Beach Road

Isn't that the truth?

But it doesn't seem to bother the Chinese tourists... they blindly step out into the traffic and cross to their waiting buses causing motorists to hastily slam on their brakes... and not usually at a "zebra crossing" either.

 

I do hope that they continue the painting down Jomtien beach road as well... those speed bumps are difficult to see in the wet.

[champers]

They are out this morning at the beach end of Klang. I nearly stepped in a pot of yellow paint carelessly left in the middle of the pavement.

[fforest1]

Gee maybe a lesson could be learned here about what

happens to outdoor road surfaces that have been painted in Thailand...Of course I am not implying the

humungus paint job they just did in the parking lot

at Bali Hi was a stupid idea or any thing....   

[KhunBENQ]

Waste of money, time, paint and words.

This is needed to stop Thai drivers run over pedestrians.

[petermik]

11 hours ago, champers said:

They are out this morning at the beach end of Klang. I nearly stepped in a pot of yellow paint carelessly left in the middle of the pavement.

You wern,t in your high heels I hope......

[BigBadGeordie]

11 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Beach Road zebra crossings repainted

Given this news, I have decided to leave my wife and kids and move to Pattaya.

Sounds so much safer there.................

 

Change of plan, Mrs said, cheaper paint here in Issan.

[joepattaya1961]

yeah, it's good to repaint the zebra's so that the motorists can identify their targets better. 

[mark01]

They should employ Chinese tour group leaders with little flags. They manage to stop traffic along beach road.

[Juan B Tong]

I feel safer.

[jacko45k]

Unlike the lane markings on Sukhumvit, which are both erased and would also be irrelevant if they weren't.

[bert bloggs]

Repainted them ? God that's an extremely dangerous thing to do , tourists will try crossing on them , 

[mikebell]

How pretty and colourful!  Does it make sense to do it in the rainy season when surfaces are damp and the paint will run/dissolve/ disappear in days/hours?

 

What makes them think there's going to be a High Season other than TAT's imaginative figures?

[retarius]

Repainting is fine but is it too much to ask drivers to actually stop when the light is red against them? I have nearly been run over more than once by tuk tuk drivers who don't bother stopping. On the Jomtien side there is a police station very close to the crossing but one never sees any police pulling over drivers who don;t stop.

[DanielS]

Just in front of Pattaya Police station  somebody think this is the place for parking my motorcykle.

[manhood]

You can't teach thais anything ....

and the thai police is resistent of taking the laws as what they are!!!!!!

so maybe pink colour would help as sooo unusual for the zebra stripes!

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, retarius said:

Repainting is fine but is it too much to ask drivers to actually stop when the light is red against them? I have nearly been run over more than once by tuk tuk drivers who don't bother stopping. On the Jomtien side there is a police station very close to the crossing but one never sees any police pulling over drivers who don;t stop.

 

There's a video on YouTube showing no-one stopping on the red light, including the police. In Thailand police not only don't enforce the law, they break it.

[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, DanielS said:

Just in front of Pattaya Police station  somebody think this is the place for parking my motorcykle.

Poleese perogative .. 

[champers]

20 hours ago, petermik said:

You wern,t in your high heels I hope......

Only at weekends.

Edited October 7, 2017 by champers

[Justgrazing]

The line " but city workers remained optimistic " will be comforting to know as you lie recovering in Hspl .. 

[MyFriend You]

2 hours ago, DanielS said:

Just in front of Pattaya Police station  somebody think this is the place for parking my motorcykle.

and for the Soi Dog's to crap on

[balo]

and for the Soi Dog's to crap on

Are you sure its from a soi dog ? It's a Chinese tradition to poop in public.

[Basil B]

I assume they will do the sensible thing next week and paint them over with black paint as they give "out of townies" a false sense of security.

 

Thereby the paint suppler friend of friend of ****** gets paid twice.

[juice777]

" Numerous people had called the Pattaya Contact Center to complain the lines were hard for motorists to see."

Why do they need to see it if they are not going to stop.

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[Keesters]

On 10/6/2017 at 3:46 PM, KhunBENQ said:

Waste of money, time, paint and words.

This is needed to stop Thai drivers run over pedestrians.

It is not only the Thai drivers here that are at fault. You'll see plenty of Farangs doing it too.

[Keesters]

Sorry....

Edited October 8, 2017 by Keesters

[The manic]

On 07/10/2017 at 11:08 AM, DanielS said:

Just in front of Pattaya Police station  somebody think this is the place for parking my motorcykle.

Did he ask you to use his motorbike? Or did he steal it?