Pattaya City officials have unveiled plans to excavate parts of the renowned Walking Street, beginning from its entrance, to launch an underground utility cable project. Pattaya Mayor, Mr. Poramase Ngampiches, held a meeting with executives from the Chonburi Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) to discuss the impending project on July 24th, 2024.

 

The project entails the installation of underground conduits and pipes to improve the city's electrical systems. This is a section of the PEA's Lot 6 development, which extends from the Royal Garden Plaza to the start of Walking Street. Before repaving, the existing street will be dug up for about 350 meters.

 

The project aims to boost the safety and efficiency of the city's entire electrical network. Yet, there are concerns from the mayor and other city officials who are worried about possible interruptions for both locals and tourists. This is primarily because the new excavation could affect the nearly finished Walking Street.

 

 

Mayor Poramase suggested that the PEA liaise with National Telecom Plc (NT) to undertake their project together. This would help prevent repeated excavations and lessen the disturbance to tourists.

 

During a subsequent meeting on July 25th, 2024, an NT representative noted that merging their telecommunications conduit work with the PEA’s project wouldn't be manageable within the planned 30-day timeframe. They proposed that the joint project be lengthened to 45 days to ensure safe, high-quality execution.

 

The talks ended with a decision to begin the combined project on July 30th, 2024, with hopes of completing it by mid-September 2024. Pattaya officials ordered the project team to put up appropriate warning signs and inform businesses and the public to relieve some of the stress on the workers at the site. They stressed the urgency of finishing this new roadwork before the peak tourist season to uphold the city’s world-class tourism reputation, reported by The Pattaya News.

 

Photo: The Pattaya News

 

-- 2024-07-26

 

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Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

21 minutes ago, johng said:

Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

 

One of the interesting characteristics of Thai people is their incapacity to plan for the future. But why bother planning when every new day presents another opportunity to tear up some perfectly good paving and ruin peoples lives all over again.

Mark my words, once the paving is reinstated it will be sh!t workmanship, so they'll have to repave the entire street all over again.

Cynics might say it's just another ruse to top up those naughty secret bank accounts - don't believe a word of it, guv!

6 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

This is primarily because the new excavation could affect the nearly finished Walking Street.

This. Over and over and over again.

Groundhog street.

8 hours ago, johng said:

Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

 

Yeah they like doing that !

 

My soi.... it is being dug up again... replacing concrete drainage pipes.

They look to be the same size drainage pipes, that have be installed 3 times in the past 7 years !

9 hours ago, johng said:

Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

 

how many times a year does the cities budget come out ? how many thai officials does it take to look into a hole on walking st ? looks about 20. 

14 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

how many times a year does the cities budget come out ? how many thai officials does it take to look into a hole on walking st ? looks about 20. 

 

19 of them are going... WTF, we just done this !

 

9 hours ago, 3STTW said:

 

One of the interesting characteristics of Thai people is their incapacity to plan for the future.  

That's an absurd statement when considering Walking Street. You can't plan for the future of Walking Street as the future will be a complete redevelopment of the entire block. These works just keep it moving along until the day it will be demolished. Walking Street will continue to be patched up until that day arrives.

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Groundhog street.

 

To be fair, when this underground cable project started it was said it would be done in stages with the final stages completed by year end 2024.

4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

To be fair, when this underground cable project started it was said it would be done in stages with the final stages completed by year end 2024.

If they knew that far in advance, they should have done the whole thing properly and be done with it. I was living in Pattaya years ago when they did that cobblestone disaster. Absolutely shameful!

 

On the other hand, milking this like they have sure lines deep pockets much better.

11 hours ago, johng said:

Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

It's ridiculous... I thought the cable burying project was done with there some time back and Walking street all got repaved and was actually looking quite good for the first time in ages. It was dismal over Covid! But no......

I was actually only commenting a few days ago while on 2nd Rd, looking down one of the 13s towards the sea..... 'look at all those cables I thought we had got rid of!'

13 hours ago, johng said:

Again ??  !!!  how many more times do they need to dig up the street/road/pavements ?

Every time the kitty gets low.

It's like renewing the sand on the beach twice a year.  The contractors have to be related to the mayor.  Bali (the recipient of this sand) sends a Thank You card every Xmas.

If there's one thing that Thais do exceptionally well, it's clipping the ticket...again, and again, and again. It never gets old. 

must have been a hard days work for all those officials that got their photo taken

The headline says, "Pattaya's walking street to undergo excavation for underground cable project." but the text of the article says, "This is a section of the PEA's Lot 6 development, which extends from the Royal Garden Plaza to the start of Walking Street."  Seems rather confusing when reading the headline and the text.  Hopefully whatever they decide to do it can be completed before the start of the high season.  

4 hours ago, stoner said:

how many thai officials does it take to look into a hole on walking st

That's an AI generated picture.

There's no pointing.

2 hours ago, norfolkandchance said:

Health and Safety Manager off sick.............?

how much ground is left on the 'beach' side anyway most of the building seem to be on piers already 

they shouldn't pour money into improvements of the area unless they can clear up the legal status of those lands 

2 hours ago, norfolkandchance said:

No safety manager ?

 

Explains why Jose aint wearing safety glasses.

🤣🤣🤣 Walking street was closed for nearly 2 years due to covid.. Then it was dug up to repave it.. 2 years ago! 555

 

So again? Pattaya is one big construction mess 

 

Well there goes my shortcut for 5 years 

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pattaya City officials have unveiled plans to excavate parts of the renowned Walking Street,

 

Let us hope any holes/trenches will be adequately protected to prevent drunken ex-pats and tourists from falling into them when staggering from bars!

 

Looking at the pic in the OP, maybe the caption should be......

 

"There's a hole in the ground, and they're looking into it"😆

6 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

The headline says, "Pattaya's walking street to undergo excavation for underground cable project." but the text of the article says, "This is a section of the PEA's Lot 6 development, which extends from the Royal Garden Plaza to the start of Walking Street."  Seems rather confusing when reading the headline and the text.  Hopefully whatever they decide to do it can be completed before the start of the high season.  

 

Right. The section from RG to WS was one of the earliest, and successful, cable burying projects in Pattaya years ago. That by now it needs an upgrade is hardly surprising. Now they also plan to add the communication cables. Lack of doing so in the past, for perfectly understandable reasons, has always been a cause for finger pointing and accusations of "fake cable burying" to line pockets.

 

No, our ace Urban Planners didn't have a clue that Pattaya would become so developed as it has, either. Sneers greeted the construction of Third Road and the opening of Central Festival, destined for bankruptcy, for example. 

 

So they aren't tearing up WS, just a section at the beginning. They buried the WS cables fairly recently, with success assured by the usual chorus of sneers.

 

4 hours ago, topt said:

Health and Safety Manager off sick.............?

 

His safety flip flops failed again so something big and heavy hit his toes........

Isnt that an old picture near the end of covid? 

The was suppose to have started and finish!  The reason all the electrical boxes.

Guess the mayor needs to skim off 

a big pay out so lets do it again.

20 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

Seems rather confusing when reading the headline and the text.  Hopefully whatever they decide to do it can be completed before the start of the high season.  

How long did the bit of work on 2nd Rd take? 

Nearly August, so just 3 months to high season, pardon me if i expect not.