What a mess! Pattaya's hanging wires are dangerous and bad memories tourists will take home with them

[webfact]

 

Daily News Thai Caption: Can you spot anything?

 

Thai media Daily News said they had been contacted by locals and tourists alike about the deplorable state of wires hanging all over the place near residences and sidewalks in Pattaya.

 

Their pictures said it all and they asked if this is the memory that the tourists will take home with them.

 

It was especially bad at the end of Soi 8 at Jomtien in the area of the beach.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

All the usual epithets were in their story that mentioned a "world class resort" and Pattyaya as a "window of Thai tourism".

 

Yet the wires remain in place year after year "damaging the image of tourism in Pattaya".

 

They even got highly sarcastic in their main caption with a picture that gave the impression of a complete and utter mess with the caption:

 

"Can you spot anything?"

 

It was obvious. 

 

ASEAN NOW wonders if the recently elected mayor has seen or cares about his untidy resort. 

 

 

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Picture: Daily News

[Tarteso]

No one would say that all that bunch of hanging wires.. lights up that city..????

[Clutch]

My bedroom window, 4 feet from where I sleep,  I'm highly wired. 

[jacko45k]

Well that and the dug up roads, half built pavements and litter around the place, there will be 5 million Indians going home telling everyone the place is a dump!

[SAFETY FIRST]

10 minutes ago, Clutch said:

My bedroom window, 4 feet from where I sleep,  I'm highly wired. 

You pay for a budget room, you get a budget view. 

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

asked if this is the memory that the tourists will take home with them

Negative, miserable people will always take home negative memories. 

 

They'll find something to be bitter about. 

 

 

[Moonlover]

9 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well that and the dug up roads, half built pavements and litter around the place, there will be 5 million Indians going home telling everyone the place is a dump!

I doubt it.

 

Trash on the river bank in New Delhi

 

[jacko45k]

Just now, Moonlover said:

I doubt it.

Is that Koh Larn or Koh Chang?

I was being cynical by the way. 

[Moonlover]

Just now, jacko45k said:

Is that Koh Larn or Koh Chang?

I was being cynical by the way. 

Look again. I've just amended it. 

[bdenner]

32 minutes ago, Clutch said:

My bedroom window, 4 feet from where I sleep,  I'm highly wired. 

At least the photo highlights the 2 main causes for the mess:-

1. They do not remove unwanted cable.

2. The use of cheap cable ties to secure the spare cable coil, only last 12 months in the ultra violet environment.

[sammieuk1]

TAT will want a UNSCO world heritage site declared for the hanging gardens of copper ????

[Tropicalevo]

38 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

No one would say that all that bunch of hanging wires.. lights up that city..????

But they do not light up anything.

They are not electricity cables. They are mostly internet fibre optic and old telephone lines.

The service providers just use the 'convenient' electricity poles.

The electricity cables are out of reach at the top of the poles.

[Farmerslife]

13 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

But they do not light up anything.

They are not electricity cables. They are mostly internet fibre optic and old telephone lines.

The service providers just use the 'convenient' electricity poles.

The electricity cables are out of reach at the top of the poles.

Furthermore, it is a hell of lot easier just to attach a new cable than attempt to unravel the existing lines and remove those being replaced or superceded. It is a nationwide problem. 

I can't see it changing anytime soon, though resolving it would present a tremendous business opportunity for some enterprising company . 

[Henk Langeweg]

News brought you by the Industrial electric complex ... 

[champers]

Works are ongoing in Pattaya, since pre-Covid times, to remedy this problem by removing all this mess and lay cables underground. Pattaya Nua/North Rd and Klang are just a couple of many examples. 

Is progress a bit slow? Yes, but it is progress nonetheless.

Please accept my fulsome apology for introducing facts into another Thai - bashing thread.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, champers said:

Works are ongoing in Pattaya,

Your definition and mine of 'ongoing' may well differ..... the pavement down Klang is going nowhere! Having zero workers there is going nowhere!

[transam]

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Negative, miserable people will always take home negative memories. 

 

They'll find something to be bitter about. 

 

 

Wiring in the UK was better than Pattaya's a hundred years ago.

The people responsible should be sacked.

I worked on electric mains in London over half a century back, not a cable to be seen......????

[champers]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Your definition and mine of 'ongoing' may well differ..... the pavement down Klang is going nowhere! Having zero workers there is going nowhere!

Klang's pavements are dire, I agree. I think that during Covid a variety of factors have slowed progress: labour shortages ( many foreign workers went home), shortage of funds and part of the budget being diverted to such projects as handing out food parcels and managing Covid testing and vaccinations.

Hopefully the pace of progress will speed up, maybe prompted by the new mayor ... or maybe not.

[ourmanflint]

2 years without tourism getting in the way of fixing things like this and what have they done? 

[KhunBENQ]

A done to death topic. Quite boring to grab it now.

And to the rescue: a lot of cable stuff on certain roads has been cleaned up or dug underground already. I remember the crying when North Pattaya rd. was a construction mess for that reason. And even in cheap charlie rd (Soi Buakhao) they cleaned up the internet cable chaos (a bit ).

[Golden Triangle]

Not complaining, commenting, there's a difference. 

 

I moved here in 2011, I've been home once after I'd been here about 4 years, the difference in London was striking, and not in a bad way. But hey you're happy being stuck permanently in the past, upto you as the Thais like to say.

 

I'm not scared of progress but if it ain't happening then what the heck do I care.

[SAFETY FIRST]

4 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Not complaining, commenting, there's a difference

Nope it's a complaint.

 

Your comment is negative. 

 

[KhunBENQ]

Only a bit (could not find own pictures).

 

[Golden Triangle]

So now, according to you, we are not allowed to comment negatively ?? Seems strange to me, we have to talk up everything ?? Bizarre beyond belief, I'm not a fan of everything that happens here and I will comment as I see fit, I suggest you skip my posts if they upset your sensibilities.

[Lemsta69]

3 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

So now, according to you, we are not allowed to comment negatively ?? Seems strange to me, we have to talk up everything ?? Bizarre beyond belief, I'm not a fan of everything that happens here and I will comment as I see fit, I suggest you skip my posts if they upset your sensibilities.

it's pointless to bang on and on and on about all the allegedly bad stuff that happens here in Thailand. you're flogging a horse that's been long dead and is now ground into the pavement. nothing will change as a result of your complaint and it only serves to show that you lost The Game. 

 

articles like this are just clickbait. they know it will bring out the usual suspects with their tired old tropes. the more clicks the more ad revenue.

[Lemsta69]

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Well that and the dug up roads, half built pavements and litter around the place, there will be 5 million Indians going home telling everyone the place is a dump!

they probably don't even notice it. it seems to be only whiny "fallung" that get upset about this kind of stuff because they think their home countries are perfect. The West is the Best and all the other neo-colonialisms.

[Lemsta69]

3 hours ago, transam said:

Wiring in the UK was better than Pattaya's a hundred years ago.

The people responsible should be sacked.

I worked on electric mains in London over half a century back, not a cable to be seen......????

I hate to be the one to break this to you champ but Pattaya ain't the UK despite all the shaved head lager louts and the old ladyboy and black football player old crusties that infest the place. 

 

I'd name names but... well you know the drill.

[Mac Mickmanus]

7 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

they probably don't even notice it. it seems to be only whiny "fallung" that get upset about this kind of stuff because they think their home countries are perfect. The West is the Best and all the other neo-colonialisms.

In this instance , Western Countries are better at wire management .

Maybe if Thais complained more about the ugly wires , then the authorities might to something to fix the issue ?

[Golden Triangle]

32 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

I hate to be the one to break this to you champ but Pattaya ain't the UK despite all the shaved head lager louts and the old ladyboy and black football player old crusties that infest the place. 

 

I'd name names but... well you know the drill.

I suppose you are only 55, ????????

[transam]

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

I hate to be the one to break this to you champ but Pattaya ain't the UK despite all the shaved head lager louts and the old ladyboy and black football player old crusties that infest the place. 

 

I'd name names but... well you know the drill.

Fink the subject is electrics, chum.....????