City workers busy repairing minor road problems

PATTAYA:--A rash of complaints has prompted city officials to send out repair crews around the city to fix niggling problems such as broken drain covers, drainage and electrical pipes, and to clean garbage out of the drainage system.

To show off the work his department is doing, Virat Jirasripaitoon, director of the city’s Sanitation Department, led officials and members of the media out to the Central Road - 3rd Road intersection Feb. 15 where workers were busy repairing a drainage cover.

The drainage cover had been damaged for some time, becoming hazardous to vehicles. The city had flagged the site with traffic cones and a fence, but apparently it took numerous complaints before a crew was sent out to make permanent repairs, which they were able to do in about a week.

Why is there a need to have a drain cover every few feet? Other places seem to manage with one every hundred yards or so.