Picture: Sophon Cable TV

Pattaya's mayor has praised his administration's moves to open up parking on Beach Road at the resort.

This meant that Thais in private cars came to the resort's beach in large numbers last weekend as they were able to park on the right on Beach Road.

Red and white prohibiting paint had been removed.

Earlier representations were made to the local and provincial police to change the parking rules, reported Sophon Cable TV on Facebook.

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

The media published a picture of mayor Sontaya Khunpluem striding purposefully down beach road with his minions in toe. 

Other work to allow more parking continues to give greater convenience to hotel and businesses and bus stops will even be clearly marked. 

Parking on beach road is now 24 hours, reported the media. 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

This meant that Thais in private cars came to the resort's beach in large numbers last weekend as they were able to park on the right on Beach Road.

 

Finally, they have found the way of how to recover tourism, by removing the red and white non-parking lines.

Spread the word.

Of course all the people parking their cars, trucks, buses, scooters, food-carts and so on won't block access to the beach in any way, right ? Unlike other areas where they do ?
And surely allowing parking there won't cause any issues with traffic flow as people block lanes waiting for parking spaces to open, or just double park in the middle of a traffic lane. (Nah - this will be "different" that those "other" places !)

They can get away with it now as there is no where near as much traffic as there used to be. But what happens when that traffic comes back (i.e. when the tourists return and all the hotels, restaurants and bars re-open and traffic from all that starts making  Beach Road look like Sukhumvit. Again.

Oh right. I forgot. People have short (very short) memories here. Like when they dug up Walking Street and found those "ancient pipes" that didn't seem to serve any purpose. (As they were dry but the fact it hadn't rained in weeks and all the businesses were shut down wouldn't have had anything to do with that, right ? So those pipes mustn't have had any reason to be there ! Apparently no one noticed the sewer drains along the street either I guess or wondered how all the water normally drained from WS when it did rain.)

Kind of like it seems they've forgotten how much traffic used to be on Beach road, which was why those no parking marks were put there in the first place ! But now they look and must think "There's hardly any traffic here, why not let them park everywhere !"

I went from Dolphin round about to walking street a few weeks ago, around 10am.  Passed maybe 10 cars on the road.  Dead, dead, dead.

1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

I went from Dolphin round about to walking street a few weeks ago, around 10am.  Passed maybe 10 cars on the road.  Dead, dead, dead.

It varies day to day, but I struggle to see how allowing traffic blocking will help the traffic when it does come, ie weekends. Will double parking be allowed? Kerry above makes the points well.

These guys........

The MASSIVE 160 million Baht Neo beach renovation that was to have already started months ago was going to add underground toilets and new beach angle parking,same as in Jomtien....

So far they have only repainted the curbs, and fixed a few of the benches,

Pattaya mayor praises decision to allow parking on Beach Road

Self-adulation  in my book!

2 hours ago, Susco said:

 

Finally, they have found the way of how to recover tourism, by removing the red and white non-parking lines.

Spread the word.

Pedestrians will also be kept safe, as there appears to be an abundance of " Crash Barrier Rollers " in the Armco barrier which separates the Crazy Drivers from the Walkers.

Is that the pattaya mafia prancing down beach road?

Oh good, all the unrented bikes will have somewhere to park, again. 

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

The MASSIVE 160 million Baht Neo beach renovation that was to have already started months ago was going to add underground toilets and new beach angle parking,same as in Jomtien....

So far they have only repainted the curbs, and fixed a few of the benches,

... and they only have 50baht left...

4 hours ago, Susco said:

 

Finally, they have found the way of how to recover tourism, by removing the red and white non-parking lines.

Spread the word.

They've realised Thais do not walk 5 metres from their cars if possible.

4 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

I went from Dolphin round about to walking street a few weeks ago, around 10am.  Passed maybe 10 cars on the road.  Dead, dead, dead.

The holiday weekend recently cars were parked all the way along beach road, totally packed, so it totally depends on whether it's holiday. Weekends are less busy

12 hours ago, redwood1 said:

The MASSIVE 160 million Baht Neo beach renovation that was to have already started months ago was going to add underground toilets and new beach angle parking,same as in Jomtien....

So far they have only repainted the curbs, and fixed a few of the benches,

Solly, no money left... 

12 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

The holiday weekend recently cars were parked all the way along beach road, totally packed, so it totally depends on whether it's holiday. Weekends are less busy

For many years, I've avoided going into Pattaya on the weekends.  Just to much of a mess.  Now?  No biggie!  Sure, more cars, but nothing like 2 years ago.  And on weekdays?  It's a breeze! Even easy parking now at Central Festival. LOL

3 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Solly, no money left... 

Lets see here 160 million baht minus about 20,000 baht for curb paint and lets say about 20,000 baht for bench repairs = equals ???

The building in road beach for parking  the front beach is finishi or yet continue ?

6 hours ago, Rodbayne94 said:

The building in road beach for parking  the front beach is finishi or yet continue ?

Finished, I guess you mean the drainage project. 

great news for all the lazy bast****

On 3/17/2021 at 1:34 PM, Susco said:

 

Finally, they have found the way of how to recover tourism, by removing the red and white non-parking lines.

Spread the word.

This is what 40 million tourists were waiting for!. mayor just opened the flood-gates!