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A bunch of impeding chairs, road cones, and signs have been removed from the street in Pattaya’s Soi Six, following multiple alleged complaints from tourists.

 

Pol. Maj. Jeerawat Sukhontasap, head of the Pattaya Municipal Work Department, assigned municipal officials to remove the shops’ signs and chairs that had been illegally placed on the street and blocked the traffic flow.

 

Jeerawat told the local media that he had received many complaints, especially from visitors, that these blockages were disorganized, stopped parking, and encroached on the public street.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/01/25/pattaya-municipal-officials-clean-soi-six-of-illegal-chairs-and-signs/

 

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They will all be back by next week ...

regards worgeordie

Next close the open front bars would be a greater improvement

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

A bunch of impeding chairs, road cones, and signs have been removed from the street in Pattaya’s Soi Six, following multiple alleged complaints from tourists.

And the police did not see any evidence of prostitution while removing the signs?

Omg, is nothing sacred.

Don't know about anyone else, but if a "visitor" came to my place and started laying down the law about the furniture placement, they'd get the gate shuffle real quick, never to return.

Pity they weren't as keen to deal with the jet ski scammers.

5 minutes ago, bluejets said:

Don't know about anyone else, but if a "visitor" came to my place and started laying down the law about the furniture placement, they'd get the gate shuffle real quick, never to return.

The "furniture" wasn't on their property, it was in the public space.

It's pointless making pavements in Pattaya as they just get occupied by the businesses behind them and one still has to walk in the traffic.

12 hours ago, worgeordie said:

They will all be back by next week ...

regards worgeordie

More like tomorrow.

12 minutes ago, bluejets said:

Don't know about anyone else, but if a "visitor" came to my place and started laying down the law about the furniture placement, they'd get the gate shuffle real quick, never to return.

 

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

assigned municipal officials to remove the shops’ signs and chairs that had been illegally placed on the street and blocked the traffic flow.

Shop operators do not own the road.

12 hours ago, worgeordie said:

They will all be back by next week ...

regards worgeordie

I suspected the next hour......

They certainly have a point... not much of a thoroughfare at most times of day. 

Soi 6 is a survivor though... still there despite the encroachment of a more base Pattaya from the North.  

Edited January 25, 20233 yr by jacko45k

8 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Shop operators do not own the road.

I have never been sure whether they own the bit of pavement in front between their wall and the road.... they certainly act as if they do and pedestrians have no where to be. Soi 6 wants the foot traffic very much, but hardly accommodates it. 

Edited January 25, 20233 yr by jacko45k

It is not a good sign if "visitors" have to complain so that the law is enforced. But 

Soi 6 seems to be a very special zone anyway. Why? Okay - next question... 

owners would face a fine of up to 2,000 baht according to the 1992 Act on Maintenance, Cleanliness, and Orderliness.

 

...........The authorities could make millions if they enforced this regulation in any town or city here....

1 hour ago, bluejets said:

Don't know about anyone else, but if a "visitor" came to my place and started laying down the law about the furniture placement, they'd get the gate shuffle real quick, never to return.

If it ever does happen, I hope I'm in your establishment to see just how well your performance of bravado goes.

Edited January 26, 20233 yr by JayClay

17 minutes ago, JayClay said:

If it ever does happen, I hope I'm in your establishment to see just how well your performance of bravado goes.

Yes, most folks stay stum when confronted with armed police... especially a foreigner who owns the business. 

Does anyone know how this is with the area directly in front of the buildings - is this public space and pavement or does this belong to the building? 

So the cars parked next to all the construction ditches... Are not a problem? 555. Double parked cars next to all markets.. That's OK too. A sign next to the curb... Very very bad 5555. 

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Pity they weren't as keen to deal with the jet ski scammers.

what jet ski scam ? :)

 

 

No. The owners do not own or have any rights to the sidewalk or road in front of their shops, however as we all know this still never stops them from blocking them   If I see a chair or anything on the pavement trying to block parking I just move it away. A bit more difficult to clear the sidewalks with the signs, motorbikes and food carts. I don’t understand why the police don’t enforce this. Seems like an easy way to make a bit of side cash. 

I doubt a single tourist complained at all.

How would a tourist know what was allowed and what wasn't.

Simply an excuse for a clean up, as a earlier poster suggested it will all return sooner rather than later.

Top of the list on important things that need addressing.

56 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

I doubt a single tourist complained at all.

How would a tourist know what was allowed and what wasn't.

Simply an excuse for a clean up, as a earlier poster suggested it will all return sooner rather than later.

The complaint came from a ruddy great big, double decker coach loaded with Thais trying to get through to Beach Road!

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A bunch of impeding chairs, road cones, and signs have been removed from the street in Pattaya’s Soi Six

and once this was accomplished, Thai officials discovered that there was indeed prostitution going on, which was previously obscured by the road cones, etc.

Edited January 26, 20233 yr by klauskunkel

Better answer, make it a walking street. Beach Road as well.

5 hours ago, stoner said:

what jet ski scam ? ????

For reference:-

 

The Thai jet ski scam is actually quite a simple one. A foreigner rents a jet ski in Pattaya or Phuket for an hour or two and goes off to have fun. When he returns the jet ski, the owner tells him it now has damage on it that it didn’t have before he rented it, and will often even produce photographs to prove it.............the photographs have been photoshopped while the poor unsuspecting tourist is off having fun on his jet ski but now the Thai owner wants 40,000 baht ($1,300) to pay for the cost of the damage.........this is often done in an intimidating manner and with a group of Thai men hanging around looking threatening................ simply pay up just to avoid being harassed or threatened........................

 

https://tastythailand.com/do-not-rent-jet-skis-in-thailand-its-famous-for-jet-ski-scams/#:~:text=The Thai jet ski scam,produce photographs to prove it.

This is like the video of the train going through Bangkok? 

Start at the top second road clean it up as soon as they reach Beach road turn around? 

 

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Thai men hanging around looking threatening

wrong. and i can't believe you actually bought into that. whats a jet ski scam ? hahaha 

 

in fact a few weeks ago i was in patong and tried to listen to them as they were working. they were not speaking thai. i'm quite alright with thai and learned to speak thai in the south. there should of been no reason i didn't understand them. i wonder what language they were speaking as none of it made any sense. my bet is burmese. migrant workers. 

 

then i was in pattaya last weekend with an american friend new to thailand and i kid you not it happened right in front of us on beach road. some unsuspecting drunken beer belly fools getting taken for some bahts. 

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

 

Shop operators do not own the road.

Try parking in front of, say, Sugar Sugar on Buakhow

On 1/26/2023 at 6:30 AM, hotchilli said:

 

Shop operators do not own the road.

They think they do.  The Indian restaurant at the top of soi 6 objected to me parking there (whilst I was doing research for my new book).  Likewise I had an altercation with a vet opposite Tops on Kao Noi; there are videos of him on Youtube. I've had a piece of wood with a protruding nail placed under my wheel for parking on 2nd road.