Walking Street Clean-up led by Pattaya Mayor

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Walking Street Clean-up led by Pattaya Mayor

PATTAYA: -- In celebration of the recent 60th Birthday of Her Royal Highness Princess Sirinthorn and in preparation for the upcoming Songkran Festival, Pattaya’s Mayor led a clean-up of the entire 700 meter stretch of Walking Street on Friday.

The Mayor, Khun Ittipon, was joined by members of the Walking Street committee and members of the Pattaya City Administration and a number of city cleaners who were all armed with brushes and proceeded to scrub the street clean.

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-- Pattaya One 2015-04-04

[bangkokheat]

gonna need more than a few brooms to clean up walking street

[alant]

I thought it should be nearly transformed into an international sporting stadium by now. Isn't that the plan for Pattaya?

[chicowoodduck]

Yup, the local street cleaners will be out in force for the next month or so....Songkran goes on forever in these parts.....disgusting.....should be one and done!!! As in one day and done....?

[jacko45k]

I think they then dumped it on the railway line bypass road, looks like a tipping ground.

[jaywalker]

Many years ago I was staying at the Windy Inn (far south end) on Walking Street.

The princess was due to "have a procession" down Walking Street one morning for the dedication/grand opening of the Bali Hai pier.

I thought it might be neat to attend, since I was there anyhow.

I was picturing some parade with her riding by & waving at the crowds in a convertible or on a float or something.... Really didn't know what to expect.

There was HUGE hustle all night to sweep the streets, and um, er, hang tarps over all the go-go bar signs.

About 8:30 AM the street was lined with spectators, all of us having purchased small Thai flags (to wave in jubilation?)

A blacked out convoy drove by at about 60 kph & the "parade" lasted all of 5 seconds.

Edited April 4, 2015 by jaywalker

[Matthew2027]

Reading the Headline, I thought it was going to be a 'CLEAN-UP' not a Street Clean.... Silly me.

[bushdoctor]

Whew! That was quite a scare, I thought it meant clean up all the adult entertainment when I read the headline.

[newnative]

^{Hope his next stop is an inspection of the sidewalks on Jomtien Beach Road. They are in poor condition and falling into the sea at a number of spots.}

[ChiangmaiRob]

... and it will be back to it's normal dirty, litter strewn self again this morning!

[bushwacker]

Silly me ... I thought they were threatening a different kind of clean up!

[petercool]

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[oneday]

Total waste of time. They need to hire permanent workers to continually clean Walking Street and the beach...then they are showing sincerity.

[jackanapes]

its a joke they need more than brushes to clean up walking street .

[BlackJack]

the headline fooled me

for a minute I thought they were talking about cleaning up the crime, seedy night life, the drugs, the P word that doesnt happen, the naughty shows, etc

[stoffel45]

gonna need more than a few brooms to clean up walking street

Soapy Soapy for Thorassic Park.

[Pattaya28]

Walking Street, like any other major "tourist attraction", should be cleaned "daily", not when the Pattaya Mayor wants a "photo-shoot" of his "goodness".

What's the big deal ?

[bartender100]

Would be better to have a campaign to clean up the beaches and improve the water quality, some parts of Jomtien are disgusting, public awareness is needed, a Thai family will picnic in a spot, get up and go and leave everything for someone else to clean up, except there is no one else

[dirtycash]

walking street will allways be walking street.

the only way to improve walking street is to remove that noise from the bars in arab quarter !! i would like to see them all closed down .

[northernphil]

'Street cleanup ' Would that be the un-desirable cigarette butts ?

[Kees5555]

Major, please clean up Jomtien Beach and some dirty sois nearby !

[Rimmer]

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[Maroon Watcher]

The truth is IT can be a great entertainment street for all, including families - real traditional, and "modern" entertainment

Mosy people I viewed walking down the street were actually just looking - they didn't want to get involved with the street girls/boys

(Obviously later in the night its more party people.)

There can be shows for everyone - making it respectable, and busier

Perhaps with a certificate above every door eg U, PG and yes X

with no real hard X until after 12.......

The same venue (and girls/boys) can have 2 types of shows -

one before 12 and one for afters....

[ChrisY1]

gonna need more than a few brooms to clean up walking street

Exactly......2 x D9 dozers and a 100m of 6" chain........and take out the lot....!

[sir charles IV]

A lot of mess is made by Arabs and Africans as well as sub continent tourists. Spitting, throwing waste on side walks etc. Control the source and you'll get a better long term solution. It also apples to body odor. Yuk.