13 minutes ago, champers said:

Public toilets next to Family Mart between Sois 1 and 2 charge 5 Baht. Cleaning is cursory, to put it politely. Public toilets at the Green Tree also charge 5 Baht and are reasonably clean.

The police owned toilets at the beach end of Klang charge 10 Baht (greedy blighters).

Central Festival and RGP are free and pristine by comparison.

 

You're an authority on the public toilets of Pattaya!

 

I guess with malls there is more of a vested interest from the shops etc to keep them pristine. 

What I used to love was the clique little groups who'd always go to the same pitch on the beach day on day of you were living there or everytime they made the annual pilgrimage which was a good little earner for the deckchair renters if you had a load of geeza's there all-day drinking .. and if their birds turned up for the customary order just about everything on the menu mid afternoon nosebag then it really could be bahts in for the renter's ..  Russians there , Italians up near the Italian Restaurants , Brits further along .. but I think the knot by which it will always be bound is the traffic issue .. can't dress that up .. if the good times return after this C V saga so will the traffic and associated problems , jams , parking , pollution .. it would be so much better and pleasant along there if it could be pedestrianised but given its importance to the traffic layout of the City that does not seem likely in the immediate future .. 

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

Do you ever get that feeling of déja-vu?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you ever get that feeling of déja-vu?

Right now ????

Jomtien Beach is about to have an upgrade, beach extended etc....are you sure he said Pattaya and not Jomtien?

They might as well  toss the money into the bay. They never seem to address the underlying issue the causes the roads & sidewalks to disintegrate within a short period of the construction: Soil composition and drainage. Until that is done, any construction work is for nothing. There is too much traffic on the beachroad and the vibrations loosen the soil etc. No one ever addresses the  soil composition which is not conducive to supporting roadways and walkways, and this;

6 hours ago, redwood1 said:

I bet the new trees will be more bloody palm trees.....They seem to also hate trees that give shade.....

They can't select alternative trees until they provide the soil and anti erosion measures that allow shade trees to  survive. You are are quote right in questioning  the use of palm trees as they are irresponsible plantings in heavily used zones. This is because the coconuts and palm fronds  are shed and often  kill or injure people.

 

It is time that Pattaya converted the Beach Road to an exclusive pedestrian walkway, with allowances for emergency vehicles. This was done in crowded tacky Virginia Beach in the USA and it works. If access is needed for deliveries, reserve the time between 05:00 and 10:00. They could even have a public transit trolley that can pass every 15 minutes for the mobility impaired.  The key is to divert the traffic away from the beach road and give it back to the people.

They won't see me there anymore, i know much better beaches with great promenades, safe traffic, low prices, polite people, honest police, clean seawater, cheap beer, nice temperatures, no chinese/indians, no annoying salespeople ......and so on......

And the contract will go to Nong Nooch as it was last time to who the mayor is somehow connected (family I think)

13 hours ago, JoePai said:

underground public toilets - they have to be joking, who is going to bail them out when it rains !

You just know the seats will be six inches from the buried electrical wires, lets hope the seats are made of rubber

Like the first paragraph in the report says, this project is about attracting local tourism. And what better way to do that than have beach side parking for the Thais and their pickups. This is not about improvement or pleasantness from the viewpoint of a Western tourist whatsoever. And now with Walking St also being altered for Thais with traffic... 

more massage shops and new bars ..... that's what's needed

15 hours ago, redwood1 said:

I bet the new trees will be more bloody palm trees.....They seem to also hate trees that give shade.....

nothing wrong with  that

10 hours ago, champers said:

Public toilets next to Family Mart between Sois 1 and 2 charge 5 Baht. Cleaning is cursory, to put it politely. Public toilets at the Green Tree also charge 5 Baht and are reasonably clean.

The police owned toilets at the beach end of Klang charge 10 Baht (greedy blighters).

Central Festival and RGP are free and pristine by comparison.

 

it appears you have spent alot of time outside toilets in the area .... do you normally hang around them.

21 minutes ago, steven100 said:

it appears you have spent alot of time outside toilets in the area .... do you normally hang around them.

depends,????  how  much

17 hours ago, champers said:

Announced by the mayor yesterday, a landscape redevelopment starting in October and due to finish year end.

So 2 months or so, maybe 10 weeks?

They couldn't get the bins emptied in that timeframe.

The facelift has already started, on Dongtan Beach.

And the billions are raining down on his family businesses again haha

160 Millions Baht facelift for Pattaya beach...

and meanwhile, the same day of this announcement, in the local news we have this

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-children-seniors-evicted-for-unpaid-rent-311355

16 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

What I used to love was the clique little groups who'd always go to the same pitch on the beach day on day of you were living there or everytime they made the annual pilgrimage which was a good little earner for the deckchair renters if you had a load of geeza's there all-day drinking .. and if their birds turned up for the customary order just about everything on the menu mid afternoon nosebag then it really could be bahts in for the renter's ..  Russians there , Italians up near the Italian Restaurants , Brits further along .. but I think the knot by which it will always be bound is the traffic issue .. can't dress that up .. if the good times return after this C V saga so will the traffic and associated problems , jams , parking , pollution .. it would be so much better and pleasant along there if it could be pedestrianised but given its importance to the traffic layout of the City that does not seem likely in the immediate future .. 

I should think that a few members of the clique we were gang members of are either brown bread or too infirm to travel long haul by now...When it was feeding time for their birds they scoffed one of everything on the menu then hid under a towel on the dog & bone telling their Thai husbands they wont be home for dinner..Beach road is virtually pedestrianised now & long may it continue into Walking street & 2021, this morning i parked directly outside the Thai Anne Summers & purchased two boxes of mixed fruit Kamagra, next stop Dr Bens to get my 6 monthly testosterone injection, things are looking up for me!............Pattaya & Jomtein is constantly under visible improvement, wheres all the millions of baht coming from?.......Amen

 

2 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

The facelift has already started, on Dongtan Beach.

Which isn't  between North Pattaya and ending at Walking Street,

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

meanwhile, the same day of this announcement, in the local news we have this

And this

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/human-cost-of-pandemic-on-full-display-at-social-security-office-311345

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Which isn't  between North Pattaya and ending at Walking Street,

Neither was several other posts, which you seemed to have missed.

 

Or?

7 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

Neither was several other posts, which you seemed to have missed.

 

Or?

Or it is another 160 million face-lift. 

On 8/16/2020 at 7:38 PM, sungod said:

Brilliant, hasn't been done for a few days now. Time to tear last weeks up!

 

What would be really nice is if they could reinstate a nice walkway from sanctuary of truth in Naklua all the way along the beach to walking street.

Reinstate? When was there ever one?

There used to be one around the headland at the north end of the beach, but it collapsed years ago, and they never fixed it.

17 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

160 Millions Baht facelift for Pattaya beach...

and meanwhile, the same day of this announcement, in the local news we have this

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-children-seniors-evicted-for-unpaid-rent-311355

Poor people don't even get a look in, as the point of new projects isn't really building a new project.

42 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

There used to be one around the headland at the north end of the beach, but it collapsed years ago, and they never fixed it.

Didn't the Dusit build that to try and stop people sneaking through the hotel to save a long walk round? Always irritated me, they made a fuss about the Sukhawadee Beach grab, but The Dusit Hotel stops a walk along the Beach by claiming that spit of land.

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Reinstate? When was there ever one?

There used to be one around the headland at the north end of the beach, but it collapsed years ago, and they never fixed it.

Thats exactly what i mean, there is also parts on wongamat that have fallen into disrepair. Its a shame, that could be made intpo a decent walk/run.