Pattaya City Vows to Finish Roadworks on Beach Road and Second Road before Upcoming High Season in October

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Pattaya — Pattaya Deputy Mayor Manoch Nongyai said on Wednesday, August 30th, that the city will expedite roadworks on Beach Road and Second Road to complete ahead of their scheduled completion dates in preparation for the upcoming high season in October.

Manoch visited both ongoing construction sites on Wednesday to inspect the progress of the two development projects.

 

On Beach Road, Manoch told local media that Pattaya City has urged the contractor of the Beach Road renovation project to accelerate the work, particularly the re-paving of asphalt on Beach Road to restore the road’s normal functionality. The goal is to complete the renovation by October to minimize the impact on the city’s tourism sphere, as October marks the beginning of the tourism high season and weekly events.

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/08/31/pattaya-city-vows-to-finish-roadworks-on-beach-road-and-second-road-before-upcoming-high-season-in-october/

 

-- THE PATTAYA NEWS 2023-08-31

 

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[hotchilli]

Long overdue....

[1duckyboy]

"Pattaya City Vows to Finish Roadworks on Beach Road and Second Road before Upcoming High Season in October"

Of what year?

[Banana7]

Notice all the workers at the construction site in the photo NONE! This is like second road and Soi 15 construction jobs, many days with no workers and no work progressing at the job sites. Also south road pedestrian walkways, still haven't been completed 100% and parts of the walkway tiles are already broken and crumbling - such high quality materials are used. This project has going on for 5 years.

 

Pattaya and surrounding  area has had continuous road construction. for more than 7 years. No sooner is an area completed, then some reason causes them to dig it up again. There is no coordination or cooperation between the different groups that maintain the utilities below the street or at street level. Many times when repairs or replacement are done, they use the products that fail in less than 5 years, causing the need to block traffic again and start a new project.

 

[petermik]

17 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

many times when repairs or replacement are done, they use the products that fail in less than 5 years, causing the need to block traffic again and start a new project.

 

creating work and brown envelope handouts for many....Thai logic ????

[Henryford]

I drove down 2nd road a few days ago, it looks worse than ever.

[rocketboy2]

Second road Jomtien, is just as bad.

A Disaster zone.

Cant wait until they start work on jomtien beach road, putting power cables under ground.

Oh Joy.

 

 

[morrobay]

No coordination for sure they just started this different project on second Rd. Then there is this trailer trash ****show on Jomtien beach , most likely permanent . And the only reference to Pattaya beach was the asphalt repaving. No mention of the "promenade,"  project that looks about half done. No way finished before October. 

Edited August 31, 2023 by morrobay

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

October marks the beginning of the tourism high season

Don't hold your breath; who would decide to spend a holiday on a building site?

[Paul Henry]

Currently every time we have a few showers of rain you can already see that the  leveling and paving on the Beach Road foreshore is not level with huge pools of rain water all along the new work. So I guess next year they will pull it up yet again for remedial work?. 

 

[Gandtee]

41 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Currently every time we have a few showers of rain you can already see that the  leveling and paving on the Beach Road foreshore is not level with huge pools of rain water all along the new work. So I guess next year they will pull it up yet again for remedial work?. 

 

I don't think Thai pavers have learnt or been taught to put falls in their paving.

[newnative]

5 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Notice all the workers at the construction site in the photo NONE! This is like second road and Soi 15 construction jobs, many days with no workers and no work progressing at the job sites. Also south road pedestrian walkways, still haven't been completed 100% and parts of the walkway tiles are already broken and crumbling - such high quality materials are used. This project has going on for 5 years.

 

Pattaya and surrounding  area has had continuous road construction. for more than 7 years. No sooner is an area completed, then some reason causes them to dig it up again. There is no coordination or cooperation between the different groups that maintain the utilities below the street or at street level. Many times when repairs or replacement are done, they use the products that fail in less than 5 years, causing the need to block traffic again and start a new project.

 

   I'm in a 'surrounding area', namely the Mabprachan area on the Darkside.  We have the same problem here--dirty, dusty road construction taking forever.  In this case, it's widening the road and installing bigger drain pipes.  Long stretches have been torn up and many days there are no or very few workers working.   When they are working, often it's with with inadequate equipment. 

   There's absolutely no regard for the poor businesses along the road, which have had their business frontages torn up for months in some cases.   Instead of quickly finishing short stretches of the construction, for minimum impact on the businesses, the whole length of the project has been torn up and, at this point, none of it seems to be done.  In some cases they seem to be re-digging for the second or third time.  

     One way we can tell the work has been taking too long.  There are two big trees in the path of where the road is being expanded.  Tree cutters came and hacked off all the branches in anticipation of the trunks being soon removed.  So slow is the work, the trees have now started to grow back their branches and they are now about 2 or 3 feet long.

     

[Gsxrnz]

Assuming the work is completed by October, I wonder what the timeline is to come back and fix all the cockups?

[redwood1]

One thing I have learned over the years in Thailand is they love love love to set unrealistic fast completion dates to costruction projects.....

I have lost count how many times they have promised 2nd road will really really be finished by so and so date...This has been going on for years....

 

100% guaranteed the new dates will be missed too..

[jacko45k]

On 8/31/2023 at 7:32 AM, Henryford said:

I drove down 2nd road a few days ago, it looks worse than ever.

I tried to walk down it..... hardly passable for the tourists. 

[KhunLA]

Good thing it's not the only road in Patts ????

 

Geez, complain about the road ... it needs fixing.   Complain when they are fixing it.  Can't wait till y'all find something wrong with it after it's fixed.

 

Nothing like being happy in one's misery, or is it the misery that makes you happy.

[redwood1]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Good thing it's not the only road in Patts ????

 

Geez, complain about the road ... it needs fixing.   Complain when they are fixing it.  Can't wait till y'all find something wrong with it after it's fixed.

 

Nothing like being happy in one's misery, or is it the misery that makes you happy.

Well you obviously dont have to drive down 2nd road.......Must be nice....

[jacko45k]

17 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Good thing it's not the only road in Patts ????

 

Geez, complain about the road ... it needs fixing.   Complain when they are fixing it.  Can't wait till y'all find something wrong with it after it's fixed.

 

Nothing like being happy in one's misery, or is it the misery that makes you happy.

Do shut up.. you don't even live in Pattaya, so have no idea what you are talking of. Just another Nakhon Nowhere resident looking at Pattaya posts to alleviate boredom and pick an argument. 

[KhunLA]

7 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Do shut up.. you don't even live in Pattaya, so have no idea what you are talking of. Just another Nakhon Nowhere resident looking at Pattaya posts to alleviate boredom and pick an argument. 

That's one reason I don't live there, too congested to begin with, whether doing road work or not.

 

Life is about choices.  You make them, you live with them.  Don't cry after the fact  ENJOY

 

Got to read something while sipping my morning cup.

 

Nakhon Nowhere doesn't have those problem, that's why I live here.  No complaining from me ????

Edited September 1, 2023 by KhunLA

[jacko45k]

Just now, KhunLA said:

That's one reason I don't live there, too congested to begin with, whether doing road work or not.

Well the place has changed somewhat since many made that choice. Sufficient to say, it is exceptionally bad at the moment, with a multitude of projects.. I too live well out of own but go in quite often.

[KhunLA]

5 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well the place has changed somewhat since many made that choice. Sufficient to say, it is exceptionally bad at the moment, with a multitude of projects.. I too live well out of own but go in quite often.

Visited shy of 20 years ago, it was a bit much then.  Then last time, probably 15 yrs ago, and seriously, can't imagine how bad it is now.

 

Patts is the kind of place you pick to live, only if you can walk to everything you need, which should actually be possible, IF, you chose the right part of town to live in.

 

Then all you need to do is deal with the weekenders, which would be a good time to sit & sip poolside.

 

Good Luck.  Highs season is only couple months away.

Edited September 1, 2023 by KhunLA

[ross163103]

5555555555, that's funny! Been here 30+ years and it's never been completed--like a non-Thai person would consider completed. It just goes thru it's different phases of corruption.........ooops, I mean renovation.