Picture: Pattaya Watchdog

 

Comment was rife on the page of Pattaya Watchdog who published pictures of the manicured future of beach road.

 

The orderly palms - from abroad - and wide walkways of Neo Pattaya were being traversed by the elderly, a young foreign couple and a man being pushed in a wheelchair.

 

My! How Pattaya had changed!

 

Yes, said the commentary this was orderly and neat. But long standing trees were being cut down to make way for this.

 

They feared that old root systems would be ripped out adding to soil and beach erosion.

 

Picture: Manager

 

Meanwhile Manager reported on a story of a huge tree being felled in the area apparently under the supervision of the owner of Nong Nooch gardens.

 

They described Kamphol Tansatja as a "rich person of Chinese heritage" (jao sua) and said he should come clean as to why the ancient tree was felled. 

 

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The game is on

Remove any shade

Force tourists to hire mafia sunbeds

Lovely Jubilee

What a bunch of neanderthals who think that by chopping trees they are beautifying something, that poor tree stood there for at least 30-40 years until a smart ar*se decided that it's time for it to go, what a shame...

Can they not find some way of satisfying the need to award contracts without destroying everything?

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

eanwhile Manager reported on a story of a huge tree being felled in the area apparently under the supervision of the owner of Nong Nooch gardens

Possibly ruined his view, had to go.

Or maybe the ever spreading root system would be /is interfering with underground infrastructure

Hard to make Pattaya any uglier but they have put their collective little heads together , scraped up a an  I.Q. insufficient to the task , and come up with this  gem of a tourist pulling idea.

 

But the amazing Thailand thing about this is they got paid to dream it up .

6 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What a bunch of neanderthals who think that by chopping trees they are beautifying something, that poor tree stood there for at least 30-40 years until a smart ar*se decided that it's time for it to go, what a shame...

Replacing them with non natives, and frond dropping trees which probably will not provide food for native birds. Was the idea of palms run by the Dept of Environment, or does someone's cousin own a tree importing company?

 

11 minutes ago, Scrotobike said:

The game is on

Remove any shade

Force tourists to hire mafia sunbeds

Lovely Jubilee

and more reef /fish damaging sunscreen

8 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

does someone's cousin own a tree importing company?

 

bingo ... first prize to you - winner winner chicken dinner ...

 

As far as I know you need a permit from the forestry department to fell any trees in Thailand, especially in public areas. I wonder if Pattaya City Hall have obtained these permits??

A true picture would show  a few Motorbikes  mounting the footpath

34 minutes ago, Scrotobike said:

The game is on

Remove any shade

Force tourists to hire mafia sunbeds

Lovely Jubilee

And of course take shelter from the heat of the Day in one of the many swanky Shopping Malls conveniently located very close to the Beach.

40 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Possibly ruined his view, had to go.

Or maybe the ever spreading root system would be /is interfering with underground infrastructure

The underground toilets... is that still planned?

They couldn't come up with something original so just a cut and paste plant palm trees.

 

Fast becoming a concrete version of Bangkok with sh_ty beach and water.

 

Another oppitunity lost to make it truly amazing and different.

 

 

52 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Can they not find some way of satisfying the need to award contracts without destroying everything?

I guess can't dig up the beach road again since it's just finish for this time so I guess them came up whit this brilliant ide to cut down the trees in stead to fill up all this brown envelopes. 

I'm always amazed at how Thais NEVER ask a farang for an opinion about how to attract more farangs to Pattaya. They would lose face if they did that. But ONLY a farang will know what other farangs seek in a holiday location. It is NOT removing shade trees, allowing scams and cheaters to continue their work, poor service at restaurants and hotels, and above all, assuming that all farangs are so rich that they won't mind paying for poor quality services and rooms while being regerred to as "dirty farangs" by government officials. Short sighted and doomed to fail. TIT.

NEO beach Pattaya: No Trees, No umbrellas, No Benches, No Beds, No Foods, No Toilets, No Nothing.

 

 

No one will ever admit it. But Patayas main attraction was it sheer decadence, walking Street and a sex supermarket. The sea is polluted and a brown green colour. Hundreds of thousands of scuba divers have trashed the reefs in and scared all the fish away.. So what will be the new attraction?

The palms look terrible & could be anywhere in the warm world.

The charm of the big trees (I know some need to be removed because of danger)

should have been planned aroud by the designers & many kept.

The soldier like palm tree design paving  looks like my Grandchilds work

Another example of a total lack of any vision or flair

Yes to planting shade trees--everywhere, not just Beach Road.  No to removing a single tree anywhere, unless it is in some way a hazard.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The orderly palms - from abroad - and wide walkways of Neo Pattaya were being traversed by the elderly, a young foreign couple and a man being pushed in a wheelchair.

Such vision, not the broken pavements, insurmountable curbstones, stink from drains with protruding grated lids, or the flutter of plastics bags passing by in the wind.

34 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

NEO beach Pattaya: No Trees, No umbrellas, No Benches, No Beds, No Foods, No Toilets, No Nothing.

 

 

...and No Fun and No Tourists.

So let me get this straight ... The answer whether legal or otherwise is to cut a mature shade producing tree down. Seems to me that what is needed to beautify Pattaya is more street trees not less. A land with myriad native palm species that can grow next to the sea (non-coconut fruit bearing) and these clowns are importing palms?! I do like the idea of wheelchair friendly access though. I mean, after all don't ambulatory challenged folks deserve access to ladyboys botties, and other forms of happy ending like the rest of us upright falangs?

5 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

And of course take shelter from the heat of the Day in one of the many swanky Shopping Malls conveniently located very close to the Beach.

Another for of Mafia I forgot to mention - yes well done!

5 hours ago, Denim said:

But the amazing Thailand thing about this is they got paid to dream it up .

LOL. IMO that is the real reason for every scheme dreamed up by city hall. Have they ever completed a project that didn't become a ruin, like the marina? Even the present promenade has collapsed a few times because it wasn't built properly.

what is the specie of trees that they cut ? are they native from Thailand ?

3 minutes ago, sncoem said:

what is the specie of trees that they cut ? are they native from Thailand ?

They existed long ago, from when Pattaya was a small place. I doubt they were imported. No idea as to the species, but they grew in sandy soil and stabilized the beach.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Picture: Pattaya Watchdog

Where are the beach deckchairs? Are people supposed to bring their own to sit under those big sun umbrellas?

Let it be like this - up to them. The high quality family tourists will decide. The coast is long... 

There seems to be a tree-hating culture among many Thais.