Pattaya, Thailand-The mayor of Pattaya, Poramese Ngampiches, toured a highly criticized section of Pattaya Beach sidewalks late last week and promised to expand and improve the walkways.

Pictures of the sidewalks went viral on social media shortly after being paved and “completed” on the area of Pattaya Beach near Soi 13/2 and Royal Garden Mall.

 

The beach has been under a construction project to expand Beach Road and provide more parking but tore up portions of the previous expansive sidewalk to do so and replaced them with what some netizens called a miniature golf course style pathway. Memes, like below, not created or endorsed by The Pattaya News, went viral on social media.

 

By Adam Judd

 

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I might be impressed if they could do something about the idiot construction workers getting it wrong in the first place, requiring the rework order and doubling the time and inconvenience. Are they even working from some approved plan?

Meanwhile on Sukhumvit/Thepprasit/2nd Road work continues apace!

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I might be impressed if they could do something about the idiot construction workers getting it wrong in the first place, requiring the rework order and doubling the time and inconvenience. Are they even working from some approved plan?

However, I wouldn't blame the workers. It takes top flight management and government officials to really screw things up

The didabled access was good as long as they used unicycles.

17 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I might be impressed if they could do something about the idiot construction workers getting it wrong in the first place, requiring the rework order and doubling the time and inconvenience. Are they even working from some approved plan?

This is inevitably what happens when Thais are in control.

 

An almost total lack of management, supervision, and a substandard end product. 
 

Look everywhere at the quality of construction, plumbing, electrics. 😂

"Promises to improve and expand". In other words, expect another round of work, chaos, dust and noise.

5 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

This is inevitably what happens when Thais are in control.

 

An almost total lack of management, supervision, and a substandard end product. 
 

Look everywhere at the quality of construction, plumbing, electrics. 😂

Yes, undeniable. 

On 12/18/2023 at 2:49 PM, jacko45k said:

I might be impressed if they could do something about the idiot construction workers getting it wrong in the first place, requiring the rework order and doubling the time and inconvenience. Are they even working from some approved plan?

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this had zero to do with construction workers getting it wrong. I've seen so many plans by engineers and draftsmen that called for the most idiotic specs imaginable, but that's what they called for, so the contractor is obliged to follow it. They lose money if they have to take time to bring the drawings back and get somebody with a brain to get things done with some sort of rational thought, so they just do it how they were hired to do it.

Once again city hall gets it wrong. Have they done anything right in the past 30 years?

 

Walkway used to be great and everyone was happy with it, but city hall obviously doesn't like people being happy and just has to ruin things.

 

BTW it was great in the mid 90's, not since.

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Once again city hall gets it wrong. Have they done anything right in the past 30 years?

 

Walkway used to be great and everyone was happy with it, but city hall obviously doesn't like people being happy and just has to ruin things.

 

BTW it was great in the mid 90's, not since.

 

I think your dates are off by a decade.... Up until 2013 the beach looked like this....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/20/2023 at 4:42 PM, redwood1 said:

 

I think your dates are off by a decade.... Up until 2013 the beach looked like this....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's the 3rd version. There were 3 different versions in the 90s, and early century. That one was the version before they went mad and turned it into a treeless wasteland of seatless despair, I remember the seats in the second to bottom photo. That version wasn't as good as the one before that I liked. It had fiberglass models of people in various poses and decorative lamp posts.

 

I don't remember much about the version in the very early 90s, but it had lots of trees

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That's the 3rd version. There were 3 different versions in the 90s, and early century. That one was the version before they went mad and turned it into a treeless wasteland of seatless despair, I remember the seats in the second to bottom photo. That version wasn't as good as the one before that I liked. It had fiberglass models of people in various poses and decorative lamp posts.

 

I don't remember much about the version in the very early 90s, but it had lots of trees

You do well remembering all the iterations of the Beach Rd, it has been repaved more times than I can remember. My recollections of how it was during my first trips in the 80s was of a good place to walk, but the beach itself was more welcoming with tree shade. 

Certainly, and perhaps more trash bins can be placed immediately so that it may stay a bit cleaner. Oh, and please also put up a few signs reminding people to throw their trash in these bins, as it seems to be difficult for many.

On 12/19/2023 at 8:09 AM, mikebell said:

Meanwhile on Sukhumvit/Thepprasit/2nd Road work continues apace!

 

but he said 6 months ago it would be done in 3. 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

You do well remembering all the iterations of the Beach Rd, it has been repaved more times than I can remember. My recollections of how it was during my first trips in the 80s was of a good place to walk, but the beach itself was more welcoming with tree shade. 

Alas, my memory for dates is way off. I just checked my photos and all in this century. I don't seem to have any good ones prior to 2003.

There was the version in the 90s, the one by 2003, the one by 2007 and the wasteland in 2013.

I'll attempt to post a few of each version.

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2004

 

this was a trial run as i have to reduce the size to post. Note the smooth top bench seat

2004

 

I'm having a problem up loading at the moment, so more another time.

 

2 minutes ago, Victor Laszlo said:

That's the 2007 version, the one after the photos I just posted. Easily identified as they paved over all the grassy areas as seen in your photo. The benches changed too, to the red tiled ones, as seen in Redwood's photo.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

You do well remembering all the iterations of the Beach Rd, it has been repaved more times than I can remember. My recollections of how it was during my first trips in the 80s was of a good place to walk, but the beach itself was more welcoming with tree shade. 

In 2013 they destroyed many lovely shade trees.

On 12/20/2023 at 10:42 AM, redwood1 said:

 

I think your dates are off by a decade.... Up until 2013 the beach looked like this....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right this very nice promenade shown is what it was during the 2000 - about 2013 years. No ands ifs or Butts about it.   We dont need to go back into the last century whatsoever. The place now is an utter sh*t show. Long gone

 

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

2004

 

I'm having a problem up loading at the moment, so more another time.

 

Very nice

I think we are missing the salient fact that a primary goal according to the article is 'a construction project to expand Beach Road and provide more parking'

I can smell and hear the idling tour busses from here.

In the 15 years i have lived here i don't think beach road has ever had a completed decent walkway. Usually it's like a war zone. Must be the longest construction project in history.

9 minutes ago, Henryford said:

In the 15 years i have lived here i don't think beach road has ever had a completed decent walkway. Usually it's like a war zone. Must be the longest construction project in history.

Usually lasts as completed for a few days before it either gets washed out by rain or they start another project... lots of money in it!