Banana7 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Pattaya beach trees are being removed by the powers that be in City Hall. Maybe they are clearing spots for the new public toilets on the beach? Seems like no more free shade, you'll have to pay for a sun umbrella from the beach chair vendors. 1 3 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post asiacurious Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 Wow. Going to make a rather ugly beach look soooo much uglier, er, fuglier. 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kingofthemountain Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 yes i have noticed it they have started to cut the trees since weeks already it seems the city hall is at war with the greenery. all the trees need to disappear, the officials will be happy if there is only cement everywhere, Sad really. Maybe they imagine a ''world class resort'' can stay without any public park ? 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aussiexpat Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 Well they did announce in the news thread they were spending 160 million baht to refurbish the beach, including replacing all the trees (so falling palms and coconuts don't hurt/kill people). I'm also a fan of adding toilets. How are we supposed to drink all day at the beach if we have to keep crossing beach road to go to the toilet...it's hard enough to cross when sober ???? 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tifino Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 the dark girls are going to get a moon burn now... 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jak2002003 Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said: yes i have noticed it they have started to cut the trees since weeks already it seems the city hall is at war with the greenery. all the trees need to disappear, the officials will be happy if there is only cement everywhere, Sad really. Maybe they imagine a ''world class resort'' can stay without any public park ? Not just on that beach. Must be some nationwide thing to get rid of trees. I am in Chiang Mai and all around our area they are chopping down massive old trees. Very strange...and such a shame. The trees were beautiful and provided shade. Who though of this idea? ???? 8 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Some unusual shaped logs for that particular beach ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post poohy Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, jak2002003 said: Not just on that beach. Must be some nationwide thing to get rid of trees. I am in Chiang Mai and all around our area they are chopping down massive old trees. Very strange...and such a shame. The trees were beautiful and provided shade. Who though of this idea? ???? Thais seem to hate trees i live in the countryside any excuse to cut a tree down seems welcomed....... i suppose its just blatant ignorance or are they just philistines Edited August 18, 2020 by poohy 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banana7 Posted August 18, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 12 minutes ago, aussiexpat said: Well they did announce in the news thread they were spending 160 million baht to refurbish the beach, including replacing all the trees (so falling palms and coconuts don't hurt/kill people). I'm also a fan of adding toilets. How are we supposed to drink all day at the beach if we have to keep crossing beach road to go to the toilet...it's hard enough to cross when sober ???? Many of the trees chopped down were not palm trees, see bottom of first photo, the stump. These old broad leaf trees provided the best shade and did not have coconuts. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kingofthemountain Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Banana7 said: Many of the trees chopped down were not palm trees, see bottom of first photo, the stump. These old broad leaf trees provided the best shade and did not have coconuts. You are right i am afraid the only reason for the cut is these trees provided shade to an increasing number of homeless, and the city hall doesn't know how to solve the problem as there is no any social structure in place to take care of these people, then they just try to do the place less attractive for them it's also why there are no decent public benches on the beach road walkside the city hall is afraid the homeless use them as a bed Edited August 18, 2020 by kingofthemountain 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana7 Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) One more photo of the destruction. Note also that all the beach chair vendors have disappeared from the beach to prevent damage and injury to vendors and their customers. Edited August 18, 2020 by Banana7 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kingofthemountain Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 26 minutes ago, aussiexpat said: I'm also a fan of adding toilets. I am a fan also it should save me the cost of the dodgy shortime hotel for a quick BJ at night with one of the beach road stars 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimmybcool Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 Incredibly stupid idea. What in the world are they thinking? 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kingofthemountain Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, poohy said: Thais seem to hate trees i live in the countryside any excuse to cut a tree down seems welcomed....... i suppose its just blatant ignorance or are they just philistines Some years ago i have asked to few Thai people why they were cutting the trees the reason given was when there are severe thunderstorms, trees fall on the houses the cars, the people, damaging stuff and killing people without any possibility of financial compensation for the losses. So it seems it's more about the fear, 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aussiexpat Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 18 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said: I am a fan also it should save me the cost of the dodgy shortime hotel for a quick BJ at night with one of the beach road stars And because of people like you, this may be why they've never had beach toilets and why they need to cut the trees to stop the "beach road stars" standing under them. Surely you can take them to your room instead of denying the rest of us a nicer beach experience with clean toilets ???? 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NanLaew Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 31 minutes ago, jimmybcool said: Incredibly stupid idea. What in the world are they thinking? They're not. I recall the cull of the original old growth trees several years ago on the grounds that they masked the CCTV coverage which enabled criminal activities. These are the same CCTV cameras that are largely broken and not connected to anything anymore. The most recent Beach road widening and beach beautification saw all those ugly palm trees installed by the contractor Nong Nuch Gardens. I guess they have a new contract. More recently on Jomtien, a branch fell from one of the old, untended trees and killed an Italian guy. Instead of doing some much needed lopping of old, dangerous branches, they cut all the trees down and bought some more palm trees from Nong Nuch Gardens. The old growth trees had root systems that helped prevent beach erosion. Palm trees don't. 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldie Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I think it is a good time at the moment to improve things. Yesterday I was at the beach in Central Pattaya at about 3 in the afternoon. At the whole area were the sand is I saw about 7 people and 2 lifeguards. I didn't see how many people used the sun chairs. So not many people get disturbed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DrTuner Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 Thais seem to hate anything green with a fervor. Just pour concrete over the sand already. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said: I am a fan also it should save me the cost of the dodgy shortime hotel for a quick BJ at night with one of the beach road stars What did hurricane say to coconut tree .? Hold onto your nuts this will be one hell of a <deleted> .. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendejo Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 These authoritarian leaders like to imitate one another. Maybe you-know-who is trying be like the guy in Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, aussiexpat said: And because of people like you, this may be why they've never had beach toilets and why they need to cut the trees to stop the "beach road stars" standing under them. Surely you can take them to your room instead of denying the rest of us a nicer beach experience with clean toilets ???? I don't think so most of the beach road workers are not here in the afternoon, so they are not really interested by the tree shade. Public toilets are already available on beach road, but you need to cross the road coming from the beach. but don't expect clean toilets (Except the ones in the malls, like Central or Royal Garden) Anyway my room is too far from the beach to go and comeback with my ST lunch hence the ST hotel, it also saves me the cleaning of the sheets Edited August 18, 2020 by kingofthemountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrongsak Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 3 hours ago, poohy said: Thais seem to hate trees i live in the countryside any excuse to cut a tree down seems welcomed....... i suppose its just blatant ignorance or are they just philistines Here in the USA, my wife had her brother take down a few small trees in the yard while I wasn't looking. Beautiful small red-leafed Japanese maple, a Beech tree and a Hickory. Right nearby there was a standing tree completely dead and rotting. They left that one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 8 hours ago, kingofthemountain said: I am a fan also it should save me the cost of the dodgy shortime hotel for a quick BJ at night with one of the beach road stars Betya miss the old transformer box they used to use eh! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailand49 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 They remove them put in new ones it has happen before it will happen again it is constant fixing no body has any idea except the people in charge maybe the train or tram is coming through nevertheless if they don't spend the money they can't budget for more????? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 6 minutes ago, thailand49 said: They remove them put in new ones it has happen before it will happen again it is constant fixing no body has any idea except the people in charge maybe the train or tram is coming through nevertheless if they don't spend the money they can't budget for more????? Kind of how the cable issue came about except missed on the removing. Have seen many tree removal sessions on Pattaya Beach and it is such a shame, the rats have nowhere to go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thailand49 Posted August 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, jacko45k said: Kind of how the cable issue came about except missed on the removing. Have seen many tree removal sessions on Pattaya Beach and it is such a shame, the rats have nowhere to go. Just came back on Hwy 7, from Chon Buri to Pattaya they are removing all the trees in the middle put in just a few years ago when they were putting up all the toll booths. They a widening for more lanes when they should have thought about it two years ago. As for money they got plenty of it for Beach Road, they have stolen a Billion baht from the Indoor Stadium project to improve Beach Road the last 10 plus years while the stadium is still unfinished. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 9 hours ago, jak2002003 said: Who thought of this idea? Sounds like a committee decision to me! They do love committees! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trucking Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Relax.....those palm trees had to go. It's part of the improvements with the long term goal being to twin with Bognor Regis. No palm trees in Bognor are there ? So there you have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 8 hours ago, DrTuner said: Thais seem to hate anything green with a fervor. You are right, there are no green banknotes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred110 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Yesterday the ones I saw cut down were dead. They trimmed branches off of others. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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