Pattaya: All change! High Speed Train station likely to move OUT OF PATTAYA!

[Surelynot]

2 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

This will go nicely along with the newly announced Chinese investment in the Jomtien area, I wonder if there is a link?

How very dare you???

[foreverlomsak]

8 minutes ago, scammed said:

i completely disagree, even with no tourism at all

and half of thais left, its still crowded roads

with no tourism it's the best time to be doing it.

[tifino]

... and the further out they make it 

 - the more profit grab backs for tuk tuks and songtows benefit 

[foreverlomsak]

Just now, tifino said:

... and the further out they make it 

 - the more profit grab backs for tuk tuks and songtows benefit 

and for the monorail, if it ever happens.

[tifino]

22 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

and for the monorail, if it ever happens.

but for many - how many of the passengers when alighting will still be a decent tuk tuk away from their home??  Is it going to be a RingRail set up stopping at every 2nd Block? 

[OttoPollmann]

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

So moving it out of the city to somewhere where people will then have to travel back into the city will ease traffic......am I missing something?

That was demanded term of the taxi mafia 

[BigStar]

3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

This is not the type of place/city that needs any of this.

A big waste..

We all know that Pattaya's not needed anything since 1995.

[Chelseafan]

"Previous reports have suggested that the train might reach speeds well in excess of 200 kmph. "

 

Not a patch on my taxi driver ...

[Don Aleman]

16 years here and I have never known ANY government project TO be completed as planned & expect that this  one will suffer several UNFORSEENITIES & may never finish 

 

1

Edited February 16, 2021 by Don Aleman

[smedly]

follow the money

 

needs to be close to walking street - because of business interests

 

needs to be closer to Jomtien where huge Chinese investment was recently announced 

 

any sensible plans are secondary

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, mikebell said:

It's not you who is missing something, it's the planners/committees/architects/builders/town hall vips: all missing a brain!

They plan to place many taxis with their meters running at the HSR Station ready to head into Pattaya.

[phantomfiddler]

Why not just leave Pattaya alone ????

[Destiny1990]

Scrap these monorail talks for light city trams.

[Surelynot]

2 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

"Previous reports have suggested that the train might reach speeds well in excess of 200 kmph. "

 

Not a patch on my taxi driver ...

...looking at his mobile phone......

[Surelynot]

3 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Scrap these monorail talks for light city trams.

Trams are the biz......amazing.

[Cake Monster]

5 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

high speed train 100baht

 

taxi to the beach 1000baht

 

 

Should be a few good old Taxi Rank fisty - cuffs from the baht Bus Boys when and if this ever takes off

[Venom]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

This now means a change in the plans for the monorail that will meet the train and transport passengers to downtown Pattaya. It will have to be longer and more expensive.

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

In addition the monorail will have to be longer than before requiring more investment though he didn't forsee this as a problem.

????????????

[NanLaew]

6 hours ago, LennyW said:

6 hours ago, mikebell said:

It's not you who is missing something, it's the planners/committees/architects/builders/town hall vips: all missing a brain!

But they are not missing the opportunity to cash in on the uncertainty!!

 

I suspect that maybe you've missed the Bitcoin train already?

[Srikcir]

Monorail vs High Speed Train stations

Reminds me of this "hand some" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdBCH16yP2A

Peekaboo.

 

[Boedog]

It will have to be longer and more expensive and you would expect nothing less, corruption is such a cancerous disease in Thailand without a cure

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Much talk and very little action. Regardless of where it goes, I doubt many of us will still be around when it is finally complete.

I won't be in Pattaya whatever... so I don't care.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

I suspect that maybe you've missed the Bitcoin train already?

I missed 2 or 3 of them.....

[Bangkok Barry]

8 hours ago, keith101 said:

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Previous reports have suggested that the train might reach speeds well in excess of 200 kmph. 

What's the point if it has to keep stopping .

 

And many trains in Europe and elsewhere already travel at 300kph. But at least Thailand will only be 20 years behind instead of 50.

[mrfill]

14 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

And many trains in Europe and elsewhere already travel at 300kph. But at least Thailand will only be 20 years behind instead of 50.

Small correction - the TGV (300kph+) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year (and still has had no fatalities).

I think that makes Thailand about 100 years behind.

[salsajapan]

14 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Much talk and very little action. Regardless of where it goes, I doubt many of us will still be around when it is finally complete.

 

are you so old ?

????

 

 

[salsajapan]

5 hours ago, mrfill said:

Small correction - the TGV (300kph+) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year (and still has had no fatalities).

I think that makes Thailand about 100 years behind.

 

TGV already had accidents and deaths.

 

 

[RichardColeman]

Super high tech modern railway system to come and walk in a place you can't push a child's buggy

[newnative]

13 hours ago, Surelynot said:

They don't, but that is what a lot of people will do......have you ever travelled with four kids, a nagging wife and enough luggage to cover a 6 month holiday?

 

The last thing you want to do is lump all that lot onto a monorail and then still have to catch a taxi at the other end .....people want to go straight to their hotel....taxi......

 

 

    Absolutely.  Get off the plane at Swampy, gather your luggage, go to the taxi stand, load your luggage in a taxi, and take the taxi to your hotel door in likely less than 2 hours.

    Or, get off the plane, gather your luggage, find where the train ticker office is, gather your luggage again and buy your tickets, then gather your luggage again and go to where the train leaves from, then wait for the next train, then gather your luggage again, load it on the train, and take the train, stopping a number of times until you are finally dumped somewhere outside of Pattaya.  Gather your luggage again and now you can then find a taxi, load your luggage in the taxi, and take the taxi to your hotel.   Or, gather your luggage, buy a monorail ticket, wait for the monorail, load your luggage on the monorail, and take the monorail--which may not get you to your hotel if it's not on the monorail line--which means gathering your luggage again and loading it into a taxi to take you the final leg.  Or, walking the final leg--hopefully not too far in heat or rain.

     Or, just hop in a taxi in the first place at Swampy.  

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, mrfill said:

I think that makes Thailand about 100 years behind.

But in reality it should certainly not take 100 years to catch up... 

[LennyW]

6 hours ago, newnative said:

    Absolutely.  Get off the plane at Swampy, gather your luggage, go to the taxi stand, load your luggage in a taxi, and take the taxi to your hotel door in likely less than 2 hours.

    Or, get off the plane, gather your luggage, find where the train ticker office is, gather your luggage again and buy your tickets, then gather your luggage again and go to where the train leaves from, then wait for the next train, then gather your luggage again, load it on the train, and take the train, stopping a number of times until you are finally dumped somewhere outside of Pattaya.  Gather your luggage again and now you can then find a taxi, load your luggage in the taxi, and take the taxi to your hotel.   Or, gather your luggage, buy a monorail ticket, wait for the monorail, load your luggage on the monorail, and take the monorail--which may not get you to your hotel if it's not on the monorail line--which means gathering your luggage again and loading it into a taxi to take you the final leg.  Or, walking the final leg--hopefully not too far in heat or rain.

     Or, just hop in a taxi in the first place at Swampy.  

People that are that careless with their luggage they have to gather it up every 5 minutes should stay at home ????