Pattaya: Mayor promises "Beauty, Order and Convenience" as Beach Road makeover takes shape

[kg1947]

17 hours ago, steven100 said:

Rid the area of all the annoying soi dogs. They are pests.

1/ Get rid of Motobike for RENT occupying the street and preventing tourists from parking along the Beach Rd. 

2/ Add more garbage containers, keep them clean, empty them 3x /day instead of 1x /day plus 2nd full shift of street & sidewalk cleaners .

3/ Stop vendors from driving their motobike on the walkway / foot path .

4/ Keep a tow truck & ready to haul away any vehicle that misuse the road .

5/ Uniformed patrol must " ENFORCE the LAW "  .....

Edited September 11, 2020 by kg1947

[Mywayboy]

Contracts sorted by the end of the month interesting whom gets the contracts hmmmm!

[bluesofa]

12 hours ago, fresher said:

Not keen on zebra crossings that disappear half way across the road.

I only climbed Everest accidentally.

See, I can play this game too.

[Henryford]

Must be "greened" ha ha meanwhile they strip every green tree and patch of ground from Pattaya.

[thaibeachlovers]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya's strongarm mayor Sontaya Khunpluem is determined to make Pattaya a beautiful place for tourists and residents of all ages and descriptions. 

x a million.

 

Every project that was created by city hall ( Third Road, sewage plant by Walking Street, marina, car park building by Bali Hi, beach walkway ) has been a disaster for Pattaya. Even the ones they didn't create but allowed were disasters like the derelict building near Bali Hi, and turning the promenade to the lighthouse into a boat park.

I don't expect anything to change.

To use the well worn phrase- can't turn a pigs ear into a silk purse.

[nickmondo]

i am not seeing any changes.

same old <deleted> from years ago when I first went there

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, kg1947 said:

1/ Get rid of Motobike for RENT occupying the street and preventing tourists from parking along the Beach Rd. 

2/ Add more garbage containers, keep them clean, empty them 3x /day instead of 1x /day plus 2nd full shift of street & sidewalk cleaners .

3/ Stop vendors from driving their motobike on the walkway / foot path .

4/ Keep a tow truck & ready to haul away any vehicle that misuse the road .

5/ Uniformed patrol must " ENFORCE the LAW "  .....

Some of us know that all the things you don't like are part of the rich fabric of Thailand which is why we prefer Thailand to the <deleted> country we left. One wonders .......................................................?

 

I prefer LOS with rent bikes occupying pavements to the PC over regulated place I call "home".

 

Tourists don't normally have cars anyway so it doesn't affect them.

 

BTW, I'd ban private cars altogether, which would fix the parking problem.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, waders123 said:

Consider a overhead tram along Beach Road in Pattaya.  Pedestrians area only below the tram.   Convert the existing Beach Road into a long grassed park that is well lighted and open.  Folks can picnic and walk the Beach Road strip as well as take the overhead tram.  It could benefit the locals, (business and public alike), the tourists would love it.  With a little imagination the area could be a visually pleasing and desirable destination to enjoy your day.  

That's not Pattaya, that's Utopia. I doubt that happens anywhere, but I'll accept photos as evidence it does.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Plenty of trees and shade and benches to sit if cannot find them, sounds pretty lame.

That's not Pattaya beach walkway. They cut down the shade trees and put in hardly any benches when the previous, much nicer walkway was destroyed.

[Bangkok Barry]

9 hours ago, fraggleRock said:

Well considering they cant even make a straigh pathway without snapping your ankles, I would not hold out... never seen a single wheelchair user in 12 years of living all over Thailand, mainly Bangkok...

A friend of mine from the UK, someone I was at school with, had polio as a young child and was crippled. Later in life he went on to travel the world in a wheelchair and, among other things, he was able to go on the Great Wall of China. He also visited Bangkok, and said it was by far the worst place he had ever been for wheelchair users.

[polpott]

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

BTW, I'd ban private cars altogether, which would fix the parking problem.

The parking problem is caused by the serried rows of scooters not cars.

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, Redline said:

aah the good old days when there was plenty of shade/seating and grassed banking where thai families could eat together...apart from a little renovation it was a joy....now after spending millions of baht we are left with a soulless monstrosity..

I think the idea behind no seating was to deter the "ladies". Didn't work, of course, but made it a place not to sit and relax while watching the passing parade.

The people that run Pattaya have no principles beyond making money, IMO. They certainly care nothing about people. Been looting the place for decades and spent nothing to support the destitute.

 

Shame on them, indeed.

[stouricks]

22 hours ago, steven100 said:

Rid the area of all the annoying soi dogs. They are pests.

And vehicles. Then it would be great.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

A friend of mine from the UK, someone I was at school with, had polio as a young child and was crippled. Later in life he went on to travel the world in a wheelchair and, among other things, he was able to go on the Great Wall of China. He also visited Bangkok, and said it was by far the worst place he had ever been for wheelchair users.

No where in LOS is wheelchair friendly. It doesn't even figure in the thinking of the high and mighty. They didn't even put lifts in for the skytrain for many many years.

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, polpott said:

The parking problem is caused by the serried rows of scooters not cars.

Up to me only m'bikes and baht buses allowed west of Sukhumvit.

[polpott]

1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Up to me only m'bikes and baht buses allowed west of Sukhumvit.

Up to me all scooters squashed with a road roller....both sides of Sukhumvit. 555

[Dionigi]

Bring back the raffia covered beach shelters, at least they made the beach look presentable, like an exotic, tropical beach, not like any other umbrella infested beach anywhere in the world, even if the vendors couldn't make as much money from them.

[thaibeachlovers]

15 hours ago, CaptainCarrot said:

He should get it all completed just in time for the monorail contractors to come along and destroy most of it during their building work. Toilets in the stations would be joined-up thinking.

If they didn't put toilets in Skytrain stations one is dreaming to imagine they would in Pattaya. Not only a lack of brain cells in Pattaya though, the London authorities have closed most of the public loos in a city that sees millions more tourists than Pattaya ever will- they are absolute <deleted><deleted>.

[Darkside Gray]

The only thing this Mayor can offer is more of the same corruption through out Pattaya!

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, Dionigi said:

Bring back the raffia covered beach shelters, at least they made the beach look presentable, like an exotic, tropical beach, not like any other umbrella infested beach anywhere in the world, even if the vendors couldn't make as much money from them.

You really are going back there.

However at that time Pattaya was a thousand times more enjoyable than now, so just putting up some thatched roofed shelters isn't going to make it more sanuk.

[Keyser Soze666]

laced with drunks, prostitutes, homeless people and stray dogs...Pattaya beach front is an absolute disgrace. You could become ill just walking down that pitful dump.

[polpott]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If they didn't put toilets in Skytrain stations one is dreaming to imagine they would in Pattaya. Not only a lack of brain cells in Pattaya though, the London authorities have closed most of the public loos in a city that sees millions more tourists than Pattaya ever will- they are absolute <deleted><deleted>.

They are trying to attract Chinese visitors.....no need for loos.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

laced with drunks, prostitutes, homeless people and stray dogs...Pattaya beach front is an absolute disgrace. You could become ill just walking down that pitful dump.

Pattaya beach front was part of the rich fabric of LOS which is why most of prefer it to the over regulated PC desert we came from.

I do wonder why some stay in LOS if they despise it so much.

[Somtamnication]

Sorry, was the mayor talking about the road or ladyboys?

[actonion]

"Order"there never has been any, "Covenience", they said they're buliding a public toilet underground, and 'Beauty"  thats in the eye of the beholder,, wait & see what next years beach renovation will bring 

[newnative]

40 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That's not Pattaya beach walkway. They cut down the shade trees and put in hardly any benches when the previous, much nicer walkway was destroyed.

Plenty of shade trees still on the promenade. 

[NanLaew]

On 9/11/2020 at 8:51 AM, webfact said:

He told the media that Pattaya must be "greened" as much as possible to make it look highly acceptable and be fit for purpose.

Anyone else pick up on that subtle nuance there? The mayor says it only has to 'look' highly acceptable, etc., etc..

[NanLaew]

44 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

laced with drunks, prostitutes, homeless people and stray dogs...Pattaya beach front is an absolute disgrace. You could become ill just walking down that pitful dump.

Maybe YOU could become ill if you EVER walked down Beach Road.

[sandyf]

18 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Am I the only one that can see a danger with an underground handicapped loo on a regular flooded road ? 

Take it you have never used the existing underground toilet on beach road.

[Rimmer]

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