Tree Hacking Continues Under Guise Of ‘Security’

[Rimmer]

Tree hacking continues under guise of ‘security’

PATTAYA:--Pattaya engineers continue to hack away at the city’s trees, admitting they’re creating eyesores in the name of security.

Workers covered about 700 meters of beachfront starting in North Pattaya Aug. 6-10, saying about 80 percent of the work is now done. More than 100 trees have been unattractively chopped, diminishing pleasant shade for pedestrians and the image of the shoreline.

Engineering Department spokesman Makara Yawapee said the severe chopping the Beach Road trees have gotten was to both make the beach safer at night and save money.

Full story:http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/tree-hacking-continues-under-guise-of-security-15893

-- Pattaya Mail 2012-08-24

[bobobo]

So now when the trees are gone it's safer at night ?? Save money??? How? Can someone explain the comments from the engineer,

please..

[yankee99]

So now when the trees are gone it's safer at night ?? Save money??? How? Can someone explain the comments from the engineer,

please..

Its in the article. Safer as the trees dont shade the lights. Cheaper because cutting them down will shorten the crane rental time....

I wonder if they are getting rid of the trees so we can not hide and video the jetski scammers...

[londoedan]

You couldn't make it up !

Lets destroy one of the few natural environments in the city - sure, it wasn't a proper park but the shade was nice and the trees looked fabulous.

This type of thoughtless activity only confirms my suspicions that City Hall is run by a bunch of morons. You'd probably need a permit to take those trees down in a lot of countries.

The rest of the world (literally) is planting and protecting trees as part of a concerted attempt to reduce global warming and these philistines are cutting them up, because the local police force is completely ineffectual (and corrupt).

Edited August 24, 2012 by londoedan

[pauljones]

What are they thinking of, just whacking the beautiful old trees down to stumps?

Anybody with more than 2 brain cells would instantly see what a mess they are making and immediately stop them.

They could have hired professionals & thoughtfully trimmed them then plant more.

The Mayors plan?

-Completely remove many trees and pave a new lane. (so it can be rented to vendor tents for 'festivals'.)

Just a few honest Police Officers on foot patrol would clear the area of the vermin.

[xen]

I think this highlights why professionals in the horticultural and arbourcultural industry should have some management authority instead of civil engineers in Local Government and particular in Parks and trees.. Perhaps they should get rid of all the clowns there and hire some people with some expertise in handling local government issues. Pattaya council has always been incompetantant from traffic management to drainage to planning., in fact in every sphere they try to operate in.

The stumps ,they appear to be leaving ,apart from being incrediably unattractive , will soon sprout "witches Brooms" growth from the lopped branches which will be a thicker foliage than before and so the processes will have to be repeated until they eventually give up and remove the whole tree and then watch the pavement subside as the tree roots decompose leaving cavities and subsidance, This subsidance will occur everywhere the have removed trees but they will scratch their heads as to why no doubt.

It is also interesting to see in the photos that the workers are using chainsaws without any training in chainsaw use (look at that worker using the end of the chain bar to cut instead of using the teeth at the base of bar for both leverage and to avoid kickback ) or using personal protective equipment or doing any trafic and predestrian safety management. A total pack of amateaurs they all are all the way up to the top of the pile.

It would have to be assumed that when the security consultants to the Council did their initial site inspection that they failed to observe 4 and 5 metre trees on site and if they install security cameras on 5 metre poles then the cameras would be looking down on tree foliage. Perhaps they did their site inspection before the trees had been planted or had grown. It is just unbelievable how .............. what word can you use to describe them.

I could keep on but i would suggest it is not the foliage that needs prunning but the administration itself of this incompetant council.

[wans]

This subsidance will occur everywhere the have removed trees but they will scratch their heads as to why no doubt.

since when has the council notied or cared about the state of the footpath?

[xen]

This subsidance will occur everywhere the have removed trees but they will scratch their heads as to why no doubt.

since when has the council notied or cared about the state of the footpath?

Exactly - too hard for them to manage even basic Local Government responsibilities. Footpaths in Thailand are bad generally but the worse are in Pattaya .

[indyuk]

I just mourn the loss of those beautiful deciduous trees along the beach road. As the old timers can tell you this part of the Eastern seaboard was renowned for its trees down to the water edge. No doubt that is why they were replanted there when Beach Road was constructed. Shame on City Hall for making another part of Pattaya.Ugly.

[Tokay]

Or... the can install new lights under / in / on the trees.

Nahhh, just cut them down. Who needs an attractive beach in a tourist beach city?

[Tokay]

Just a few honest Police Officers on foot patrol would clear the area of the vermin.

1) That would mean they would have to walk. Not gonna happen. 2) You are not going to find a new honest police in Pattaya. The entire place is over ran with corruption.