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

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

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Pattaya's mayor has painted a rosy picture of Pattaya's future as plans for a Tram Way look set to be completed next year. 

 

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

 

But the story on Sophon Cable TV did not mention a start date - and posters on the site thought that Pattaya was in for a long wait before the promised glowing future arrives. 

 

A 70 million baht study for the Tram Way will be completed by mid 2020, said mayor Sontaya Khunpleum.

 

The system will be designed to link up with the bullet train linking three airports that has recently gained government approval. One of the stations on the route from Don Muang to U-tapao and Rayong will be in Pattaya. 

 

The system is part of developments started in 2016 referred to as the Eastern Economic Corridor designed to improve the eastern seaboard in terms of transport and infrastructure. 

 

Sontaya spoke of improved convenience for tourists and locals alike in the future and promised that the tram would mean less traffic and less accidents. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

This would be good in terms of both loss of life and injury but also bring economic benefits especially in terms of transportation. 

 

But he cautioned that there was much work to be done. Following the completion of the environmental impact and design survey process mid 2020 there will be consultative phases. 

 

More recommendations of how to proceed will follow. These will involve not just the tram itself but other transport options that currently operate in and use Pattaya. 

 

The project is a massive one, he said, and it is yet to be decided how the multi billion baht project will be financed. One involving government and private sector finance under a PPP scheme is envisaged. 

 

But while the future looks rosy in words coming from officialdom posters on the Sophon site saw a long road of disruption for Pattaya ahead. 

 

Some suggested that infrastructure improvements in Bangkok had not seen less traffic there. And there had already been many years of traffic chaos in the capital.  Many BTS and MRT projects have been completed and are ongoing in Bangkok. 

 

Other posters asked for a timetable of when the tram project might start being built and might be finished - details lacking in the Sophon story. 

 

Source: Sophon Cable TV

 

 

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[NCC1701A]

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

[CGW]

A "Rosy" picture indeed ????

The reality will doubtless prove to be a great source of revenue for those involved, once they have finished installing a drainage system that works!

[seasia]

Pattaya   Hub of plans

[ThreeEyedRaven]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

A 70 million baht study for the Tram Way will be completed by mid 2020

4 Million Euros just for the feasibility study? Some serious money going into some slippery folks pockets there then.

[Skallywag]

News of a "study" that should be completed next year! 

 

[mok199]

This worn out old promis

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

70 million baht study for the Tram Way will be completed by mid 2020, said mayor Sontaya Khunpleum.

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

Edited November 25, 2019 by mok199

[bluesofa]

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

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

"promised"

[PatOngo]

Tourists will be able to surf the bow wave on Beach Road in the wet season!

[Chang_paarp]

I can see the Baht Bus co-operative will have firm options on this introduction of competition on their patch.  Will the tram have more success than the bus service they tried  to introduce a number of years ago? I am sure the construction workers and the tram drivers will be kept safe.

[lwn320]

As always. “Just talk”. Always talk nothing changes. 

[Matzzon]

Has MLK just been re-incarnated in Pattaya. I can hear somebody saying "I have a dream!" again.

[Enoon]

57 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

 

But you'll be back won't you?

 

 

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, Enoon said:

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

But you'll be back won't you?

Don't hold your breath...

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, Chang_paarp said:

I can see the Baht Bus co-operative will have firm options on this introduction of competition on their patch.  Will the tram have more success than the bus service they tried  to introduce a number of years ago? I am sure the construction workers and the tram drivers will be kept safe.

In addition to the above statement which is quite correct; additionally, this tram service still will not get rid of one the main problems which is the Chinese tourist coaches blocking everywhere and creating havoc.....!!!!

[thailand49]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

It is a <deleted> hole!  but a happy one?   60 million baht spread into the pockets of a few 10 million to a firm to study want? just to make it official that it is going to be built anyways while the money could be better used! 

[wgdanson]

We 'ad 'em years ago.

Edited November 25, 2019 by wgdanson

[30la]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A 70 million baht study for the Tram Way will be completed by mid 2020, said mayor Sontaya Khunpleum.

Do you have 70 million to spend only on finding a valid project? Who do you give them to?
The roads you have, you just need to make them wider and make a lane just for the buses, which you already have, send the policemen out into the street to do the work for which they are paid (control the traffic, enforce the use of the lanes for the bus), and ... problem solved!
Save the money that can really help you boost tourism!

[Estrada]

3 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

We 'ad 'em years ago.

That's not a tram, it is a trolley bus

[wgdanson]

3 minutes ago, Estrada said:

That's not a tram, it is a trolley bus

Correct sir, trams run on rails. Sorry, my mistake. This is a tram.

 

tram 2019.jfif

Edited November 25, 2019 by wgdanson

[tifino]

and they call it a Tram, because they don't have a standard Tram to compare it to...,

 - if they did, then this new thing would be called 'Light Rail' in it's own right

[Guderian]

The only way they'll have room for something like this is if they build it as an elevated tramway (or an underground railway). The roads are mostly too small to accommodate a tram or light railway system, even if it did result in fewer vehicles on the streets. 

[rtco]

These trams will need inflatable buoyancy skirts

[ExpatLife]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

will the whole city still smell like a open sewer?

 

i was amazed at how bad the smell was.

I went there not long ago from HH and when I got off of the ferry, the bridge was literally swarmed with Chinese people. My Thai GF was shocked because it was so surreal, I am not talking about a few dozen or even hundreds, literally thousands and thousands of Chinese people from the dock up to the clock tower area. And yes the city smells terrible 

[wombat]

now let me pontificate for a moment here, trams,tram tracks, motorbikes and baht bus along Beach Road, throw in the odd drunk tourist or three who isn't used to looking right when they cross roads.
what could possibly go wrong?

Edited November 25, 2019 by wombat

[Youlike]

3 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

4 Million Euros just for the feasibility study? Some serious money going into some slippery folks pockets there then.

Since when is 70 million baht 4 million euro?

[KhunBENQ]

11 minutes ago, Youlike said:

Since when is 70 million baht 4 million euro?

Not (yet). Heaven helps this is not a prophecy.

[Youlike]

4 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Not (yet). Heaven helps this is not a prophecy.

And none of the other posters noticed it ????

[kcpattaya]

WHAT A COMPLETE NONSENSE!!!!

His brother promoted something similar more that 10 years ago!
TiT

[RichardColeman]

And what happens when it rains ?