Pattaya to create detours along vital stretch of Sukhumvit Road

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Pattaya to create detours along vital stretch of Sukhumvit Road

PATTAYA:--Detours will be created along a vital stretch of Sukhumvit Road to allow contractors to lay drainage pipes needed for the Central Road bypass tunnel, making already bad traffic worse.

Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh announced the detours during a May 26 meeting called to address complaints by residents near the construction zone about cars and commercial trucks using their private road as a detour.

The owners of the private land in the construction area have since given their permission to use their property until the construction is done.

Ronakit said from 15-30 June, contractors will lay 1.2 meter drainage pipes along the west side of Sukhumvit Road (Central Road to North Pattaya). Traffic heading towards North Pattaya will be detoured from in front of Pattaya School No. 5 to the East side of Sukhumvit Road (Siam Country Club side) and back to the west side in front of the Index Mall.

Traffic going south will be on the furthest left lane and can go straight as usual.

From 1-15 July, the two detour lanes from north to south will be on the west side from Index Mall to the school. Traffic going north will be on the furthest left lane and can go straight as usual.

During this time, and until the end of July, traffic along the railway tracks, Soi Siam Country Club Road, Soi Nernplabwan, So Khao Noi and Soi Khao Talo is expected to worsen, so traffic police from Nongprue, Pattaya and Banglamung will be on duty from 7.00 -10.00 hrs and from 16.00-19.00 hrs to direct traffic during the peak periods.

Traffic signs will be put up to instruct and help motorists.

Slated to last at least three years, the bypass-tunnel construction project already is a source of major traffic congestion and heartburn for central Pattaya drivers, residents and business owners.

Ronakit explained that Sukhumvit had been narrowed so much to allow for construction crews adequate space to work and park their heavy vehicles. Without that space, the work cannot proceed quickly, causing prolonged pain for everyone.

After the pipe laying project is done and just around the end of the year, a meeting will be held to plan the next phase of laying various cables including electric cables on Sukhumvit Road at the same intersection.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-05-29

[craigt3365]

One lane for the south bound side? What a mess....

[Pattaya28]

Has this new tunnel-system been thought through at all ?

Or are they working on a "suck-it-and-see" basis ?

Why aren't power cables laid the same time the road is dug up to lay these huge drainage pipes ? Why do the digging up twice ?

A year ago was a 20 minute round trip from my house to McDonalds and back.

This morning took me almost an hour.

Travelling from A to B is really becoming a nightmare now. And it'll get worse. Far worse.

The by-pass could be a good option. But the planning and lack of traffic lights makes it an optional nightmare too.

[xen]

Should be fun !!!!

[Langsuan Man]

Shouldn't all of this planning been done before the construction was started ?

Did they really think that they could block a major road for a construction project and it would not cause major problems

a meeting will be held to plan the next phase

Pretty much sums up the piss poor planning that has gone into this project. It should have been planned in detail before the first shovel of dirt was removed, not made up as you go along. Do these idiots think that they are playing with Legos !

[aussiandrew]

This works should be conducted on a 24 hours schedule it would half the construction time frame.But you know.

[GaryB1263]

Does anyone have any proposed drawings of this project??? How far south does the tunnel go?

[Khun Riki]

Khun Ronakit Ekasingh aka Mister Fail strikes again and again...

[Don Mega]

Does anyone have any proposed drawings of this project??? How far south does the tunnel go?

As far as I know this tunnel will only go under the klang intersection, there is a second tunnel planned to go under the Tai intersection with it starting in 2016.