Pattaya to Become "Beachside Suburb" of “World's Best City

PATTAYA: -- At a recent closed door meeting of Pattaya business people, Pattaya Deputy Mayor Ronnakit Ekkasing unveiled plans for the extension of the high speed train from Bangkok to the airport to make stops in Pattaya and along the way to Rayong.

“The first route chosen for the project travels to Pattaya, and continues from there to Rayong,” the hard working Deputy Mayor said.

The high speed train tracks will replace the outdated tracks running parallel to the east of Sukhumvit Highway. Currently, only one train operates a day, coming to Pattaya from Bangkok in the morning and returning to Bangkok in the afternoon. The cost is 37 baht per passenger and the train stops numerous times, taking more than four hours one way.

Pattaya property developer Drew Noyes told the Pattaya Times "With Bangkok soon to be only a short 30 minute trip train away,

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-- Pattaya Times 2011-07-18

Suburb? must to be a mistake, i am sure they meant to say "subHUB", we all know how much that word is loved here, even the frogs outside in the fields are constantly repeating that : " hub-hub, hub-hub, hub-hub,...."

What beach by the time they do the"high speed"rail link the beach will be gone in Pataya. :cheesy:

why all these pointless meetings about high speed rail links??

they've obviously got nothing better to do all day.

have they never heard of the afternoon pleasure's of soi 6.

Another Drew Noyes fantasy island gig.

have they never heard of the afternoon pleasure's of soi 6.

I hope so,because I think it isn't legal for a bar to open before 6Pm.

I just want to know who writes this s**t and what cloud they're living on.

Bangkok to Pattaya in 30 minutes ??

Don't hold your breath, this is Thailand Mate.

So ,the current tracks are going to be replaced by the high-speed tracks.

Meaning that low-speed transport of goods and high-speed transport of people will be using one track?

Another thing is of course: a high speed railtrack requires un-even railroad crossings (e.g. tunnels), so apart from replacing the rail-tracks, some major digging have to be done.

The plus is: all the soil that is recovered during the building activities, can be dumped along Beach Road

Ha ha. Nice one Thai Visa.

After putting this uncritical rubbish up as a news article and quoting from self-styled "property developer" Drew Noyes, it then splashes another law firm's ad underneath it, for Siam Legal, instead of having Noyes's own over-hawked legal firm PAPPA, which he bizarrely doesn't even mention once in the entire article either.

Edited July 19, 201114 yr by sharecropper

I looked at that website and that Noyes character seems to toot his own horn with his life history.

TheWalkingMan