Pattaya: Fair prices mooted and tour buses banned - "Monorail" set to reshape resort landscape

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Thai media has reported that the consultative phase for changes to transport in Pattaya will begin on Monday.

 

Pattaya's mayor Sontaya Khunpluem will chair a fact giving, and opinion seeking meeting.

 

Top of the agenda will be what will be built to meet the three airport high speed train when it is finished in 2023.

 

Bangkokbiznews have said it will be a monorail. Earlier reports called it a tram. They hope building on the project will start at the end of next year. 

 

They said that it would be built at a cost of between 7 and 8 billion baht and suggested that Chinese investment was being sought. 

 

Captions for graphic: Plans for Pattaya Monorail - (to connect with) Pattaya high speed train station. 
Bubbles: 7 billion baht budget - Chinese investment - Open with the train in 2023

 

The media mentioned previous ideas from deputy mayor Manoch Nongyai that suggested the route would comprise 8 kilometers. 

 

They said that the price for passengers on the new "light railway" would be commensurate with existing prices for transport. 

 

It is expected that the "baht buses" or song thaews of Pattaya will have to change their routes. 

 

And it has been proposed that tour buses will - in the future - no longer be allowed to enter the city once the light railway is built.

 

Source: Bangkok Biz News

 

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My goodness..if this ever gets off the planning stage the amount of brown envelopes going round is going to be astronomical

9 minutes ago, petermik said:

My goodness..if this ever gets off the planning stage the amount of brown envelopes going round is going to be astronomical

No different to  most countries then. But who will decide the fair price for a BG ?

23 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

They said that it would be built at a cost of between 7 and 8 billion baht and suggested that Chinese investment was being sought. 

 

The media mentioned previous ideas from deputy mayor Manoch Nongyai that suggested the route would comprise 8 kilometers. 

 

1BN per kilometre!!! are they having a laugh??

 

 

From the fast declining tourist numbers a horse a cart may be a more cost effective solution???? 

yep, another meeting and photo op with all the grim faced usual losers pictured.  Why don't they just get off their fat backsides and do something instead of endlessly talking about it, eating somtam then having their ugly mugs paraded for all to see? Surely they must know how pathetic this all seems to us, who have watched the same old story numerous times in the last 20 years. Meanwhile the Pattaya nightmare continues and grows worse with every passing day.  What is Thai for 'leadership', or doesn't it translate? 

About 10 years ago they planned a Monorail for Pattaya already. If I remember correctly we also had public busses and bus stations for them. Do they still exist? 

50 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

It is expected that the "baht buses" or song thaews of Pattaya will have to change their routes. 

Why not just abolish them? They don't serve the Pattaya 'burbs but just crawl around the same 'loop' as they did 30 years ago.

 

51 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

And it has been proposed that tour buses will - in the future - no longer be allowed to enter the city once the light railway is built.

Like they were "no longer allowed" over 20 years ago when they built 'Duck Square' up near Big C Pattaya Tai? This was going to be the terminus for inbound tour buses to transfer passengers to baht buses for city drop off. Then Mike's Shopping Plaza opened with his own dedicated bus parking out back and nobody noticed when everyone else followed.

 

Then 'Mike' became an influential local council member and all hope was lost.

58 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Pattaya: Fair prices and tour buses banned -

What? No fair pricing? A merchant and hawkers free for all?

 

I wonder who writes the copy or even proofs it?

 

Not even google translate mangled the original message that much.

59 minutes ago, petermik said:

My goodness..if this ever gets off the planning stage the amount of brown envelopes going round is going to be astronomical

Who's overseeing the project? Sontaya Khunpluem, son of Somchai Khunpluem aka Kamnan Poh the most feared and notorious gangster in Chonburi, convicted of murder and corruption and never served a day in prison, and owner of chunks of Pattaya.

 

Sontaya is also a favourite of Prayut, and served as his political advisor. Had previously served under Taksin. All brown envelopes will go to him.

That would be amazing progress in a nation not used to progressive ideas or action. Park the huge buses on the outskirts of town. Keep those monsters away. They are such a nuisance and create so much congestion. Public transport is always a good thing and locks out the taxi mafia. 

3 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

No different to  most countries then. But who will decide the fair price for a BG ?

I’m always waiting for that comment lol ^^ But actually it IS different here. Get a grip!

19 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

That would be amazing progress in a nation not used to progressive ideas or action. Park the huge buses on the outskirts of town. Keep those monsters away. They are such a nuisance and create so much congestion. Public transport is always a good thing and locks out the taxi mafia. 

And pipe dreams are for smoking on balmy evenings sat on the patio.

put it right along beach road. right in front of the ocean. so you can't see the sunset. 

 

on top of a gigantic 10 meter high wall of concrete.  

 

Another of the many stupid ideas that sick minds are able to conceive!

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Khunpluem

Google the family name of Pattaya's Mayor, and hold on for a ride! 

Which is Pattaya more like, Springfield or Shelbyville?

 

https://youtu.be/ZDOI0cqZDOI0cq6GZM

 

 

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

From the fast declining tourist numbers a horse a cart may be a more cost effective solution???? 

Just bring the horse-drawn carriages from Lamphang

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

And it has been proposed that tour buses will - in the future - no longer be allowed to enter the city once the light railway is built.

Only proposed, I will believe it when, or if it ever happens

4 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

From the fast declining tourist numbers a horse a cart may be a more cost effective solution???? 

Pattaya might be slowly sliding down to nothingness, a monorail would be a lot of money thrown away......

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Bangkokbiznews have said it will be a monorail. Earlier reports called it a tram. They hope building on the project will start at the end of next year. 

Great, they can start digging up Beach Rd as soon as the drainage project is finished.

"Earlier reports called it a tram."

Later reports call it a scam

9 minutes ago, Emdog said:

"Earlier reports called it a tram."

Later reports call it a scam

Soon to be a sham?

Ugly and will destroy the sea view if build on or close to Beach road... a BIG BIG mistake !!!!!!!!

Right now the streets of Pattaya are being completely clogged with tour buses, and they should be banned from downtown until an alternative solution is found and implemented ???? And a Gogo Bar on every Monorail Station would be nice ????

naklua road, pattaya second road, thappraya and jomtien second road seem like the natural route for such a project, maybe with an aerial terminal just back of bali hai pier.

I hope they will leave the beach roads alone.

and then they could build a loop, jomtien second road to sukhumvit, then thepprasit, pattaya tai, pattaya klang, pattaya nua, banglamung and back to naklua.

such a route would serve all the major malls and hospitals, bus stations...

they would also need an interchange station with the high speed rail in between.

Wasn't it Trams last month??? ????

Without tour buses, there will be no Chinese tourists!

5 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

No different to  most countries then. But who will decide the fair price for a BG ?

No,very different. Go to transparency.org for information on least/most corrupt countries 

5 hours ago, Beggar said:

About 10 years ago they planned a Monorail for Pattaya already. If I remember correctly we also had public busses and bus stations for them. Do they still exist? 

There are still some bus stops????????