Expressway to Pattaya to be canceled after consulting with communities
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- An expensive infrastructure project is abandoned in response to strong objections from affected communities.

Sound like the stuff of fantasy? Such an implausible story proved reality today with word that plans to build a new expressway linking Bangkok and Pattaya will likely be scrapped because it’s just not worth it, officials said.

Construction of the Burapha Vithi-Pattaya Expressway, expected to stretch about 70 kilometers and cost THB50 billion, has met with fierce resistance from communities and wouldn’t have been a huge economic boon, according to officials at a final public hearing in Sri Racha on Sunday.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/01/26/expressway-pattaya-be-canceled-after-consulting-communities


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-01-27

What's that Sai Mai then if not an 'expressway' from BKK to the Eastern Seaboard?

Good, this is really unecessary, the current roads are fine. Better to spend the money on the Electric train to Pattaya and other public transport projects.

Do not bother with the "Coconuts" link because it provides very little additional information to that printed here.

Good, this is really unecessary, the current roads are fine. Better to spend the money on the Electric train to Pattaya and other public transport projects.

Electric trains and public transport projects don't really do the basic economy much good and usually have more to do with being able to show off pretty toys. Freeways and heavy rail projects tend to be the backbone of the business economy where moving products and produce to market in an export oriented market creates the vast majority of jobs.

Good, this is really unecessary, the current roads are fine. Better to spend the money on the Electric train to Pattaya and other public transport projects.

The current roads are fine, Hmmm !!!! Route 7 motorway to Chonburi,non motorway beyond Chonburi and the Bang Na Trad highways, crowded and dangerous. The non motorway beyond Chonburi, particularly after it reduces to 3 lanes is poorly designed with the lanes notwide enough for the heavy lorries, gradients too steep, poorly constructed, badly maintained and extremely unpleasant to drive on. The Bang Na Trad highway, beneath the elevated road is a death trap.

Otherwise these roads are "fine".

Good, this is really unecessary, the current roads are fine. Better to spend the money on the Electric train to Pattaya and other public transport projects.

Electric trains and public transport projects don't really do the basic economy much good and usually have more to do with being able to show off pretty toys. Freeways and heavy rail projects tend to be the backbone of the business economy where moving products and produce to market in an export oriented market creates the vast majority of jobs.

The standard gauge electric train system would remove passengers from the current meter gauge system and thus freeing it up for more space for freight movements. It will actually make a huge difference and the economies around the in between stations will also receive a huge boost. The standard gauge system will also be used for freight movements from Bangkok/Laos/China to Map tha put port which is passed Pattaya.

The main logjam on the BKK to Pattaya route is from the end of the expressway to the Laem Chabang turnoff. This section is heavily used by the freight trucks, taking up most of the four lanes. So long as they continue with the expansion of this part of the road another expressway should not be required for the foreseeable future.

Good, this is really unecessary, the current roads are fine. Better to spend the money on the Electric train to Pattaya and other public transport projects.

Electric trains and public transport projects don't really do the basic economy much good and usually have more to do with being able to show off pretty toys. Freeways and heavy rail projects tend to be the backbone of the business economy where moving products and produce to market in an export oriented market creates the vast majority of jobs.

Bang on. The UK government is spending zillions on HS2/3, a transport system the ordinary punter will not be able to afford.

Do not bother with the "Coconuts" link because it provides very little additional information to that printed here.

This website is totally useless and wonder why they always link there...

Surely belongs to good friends <3

why no train to pattaya, from SUVI

big destination for yearly 2 week millionaires

Expressway to Pattaya to be canceled after consulting with communities.

Actually they meant to say:

Expressway to Pattaya to be canceled after consulting with the communist.