Itthiphol, council leave office before completing promised Makro U-turn

PATTAYA:--Elected Pattaya officials who repeatedly promised to open a new Sukhumvit Road U-turn left office last month without keeping their pledge.

Former Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome said several times over the past year, most recently in February, that the U-turn, near the Makro warehouse store in South Pattaya, would open “soon”. All it needed was some landscaping, new signage and signals.

None of them were funded or contracted before Itthiphol and the city council’s term expired June 16. They were replaced by Interior Ministry officials appointed by the junta.

Acting Mayor Chanatpong Sriviset acknowledged the elected officials did not move on their promises and said there was nothing that could be done on the issue for the time being.

The turn was constructed with a million-baht budget after another turnabout 300 meters away was closed due to numerous accidents there. Area residents complained that the replacement should have opened when the other closed.

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/itthiphol-council-leave-office-completing-promised-makro-u-turn-141479

-- Pattaya Mail 2016-07-08

I seem to remember it did open but was closed a few days later because of poor placement.

Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome screwed up just about every project he touched...

And some of them in spades like beach road and the automatic car park....

Surprise surprise a politician fails to keep an election promise. Not necessarily a Thai exclusive trait.

All of these 'U-Turns' need to be closed and even banned completely. They only create traffic chaos and likely contribute to more than a few accidents.

We live very near these 'abandoned & barred' U-Turns (there are actually 2 of these: one in each direction) and it is causing hundreds of residents in our area to drive many extra miles to get to the Sukhumvit Sois giving access to our residential areas. - What I DID notice yesterday, the "always inventive" motorbike drivers, have now "created" a very narrow track through this barred-up U-Turn, which is, of course, making for extremely dangerous situations, when all of a sudden motorbikes appear, as if out of nowhere, and join the traffic flow . . . A very dangerous situation, to say the least !

Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome screwed up just about every project he touched...

And some of them in spades like beach road and the automatic car park....

But...but what about all those (VERY) expensive traffic lights he was responsible for having installed?!

Someones missing from this thread ?

Come on don't be shy

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by onemorechang

Now reopened with new flashing hazard warning lights! I bet there will be an accident within 24 hours!