Military targets 2nd Road parking, pavement woes

[Rimmer]

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[newnative]

10 hours ago, guzzi850m2 said:

Thais don't like to walk (outside) so they will never ban driving/parking on beach/2nd road.

 

If they do they might face civil war.

 

Yes the army have certainly done a lot of good things here, keep up the good work.

I agree driving will never be banned on these roads but I think, at some point, parking will be banned on Beach Road.  The parking benefits a relative few while it prevents widening the sidewalks on the shops side.  With parking banned, the sidewalks can be widened, trees added, and bus and taxi pickups managed better.  Parking is already banned in many places along the road, better to eliminate it all together for the benefit of the many.

[gmac]

On 1/14/2017 at 9:35 AM, newnative said:

I agree driving will never be banned on these roads but I think, at some point, parking will be banned on Beach Road.  The parking benefits a relative few while it prevents widening the sidewalks on the shops side.  With parking banned, the sidewalks can be widened, trees added, and bus and taxi pickups managed better.  Parking is already banned in many places along the road, better to eliminate it all together for the benefit of the many.

Parking benefits a relative few because most of the motorbikes parked on beach are privately owned but rentals waiting for customers.

[newnative]

7 hours ago, gmac said:

Parking benefits a relative few because most of the motorbikes parked on beach are privately owned but rentals waiting for customers.

Even if all of the vehicles and motorbikes were not rentals the parking would still just benefit the relative few.  The beach side is already no parking and there are lots of no parking zones on the shop side--time to just do away with it all and renovate the sidewalks on the shop side with wider sidewalks, trees, bus and taxi drop off areas, designated crosswalks, etc.

[johng]

On 14/01/2017 at 8:28 AM, joepattaya1961 said:

<deleted>.......and what about the markets along South Pattaya Road? 

And what about the market near the junction 2nd Road and Central Road.

Nah, instead they're bothered with parking along 2nd Road......bye bye taxi-meters, motorbike taxis.....!

 

Why not shut down all entrances to Pattaya, North, Klaang and Tai and make it one big vehicle-free area......just like DreamWorld where electric powered songtaews will tour tourists around?

 

The market on South Pattaya opposite the temple has been there for years and years, it gives the place "character"

after dark when all the food stalls setup  locals sit on the roadside having a cheap tasty meal...later on in the early hours lots of Walking street workers use the same food stalls  yes the pavement is narrow and tiresome to walk on  the other side of the road  is much easier to walk on

I just walk on the road.  They have implemented a odd/even day parking restriction that is quite well enforced especially on Soi Boukow market days. They need to do something about the botleneck where beach road transitions onto Walking street and the 90 degrees left turn that leads to South Pattaya road..I read they have tried to prohibit songteaws parking/stopping there but doubt it will last long as that is a very lucrative spot.

 

They have tried buses 2 or 3 times already, taxis that have meters but wont use them,  a proposed monorail never got off the drawing board

 Bike taxi  and songteaws  seem to work quite well..but the large increase  of ( Chinese ) double decker coaches of the past couple of years

really messed things up along with the very large increase of weekend Bangkokians ( in their cars ) after the great 2011 floods.

 

Maybe a new monorail proposal linking all the Shopping malls together  (and partly funded by the shopping malls) would  work

Could be Tesco/ BigC  at Theprasit  then along South Pattaya road  onto  beach road for  Royal Garden,Mikes, Central the beach, branch off to Harbour Mall,then onto Central Marina and Terminal 21 at the north end then swing past city hall and the other Tesco ???

 

 

[performance]

This is a prime example of the governments failure to reform the RTP. WHY have you created your own police who honestly have 0 people skills and no qualifications. You came here for what ? To satisfy your own needs ? A real government assigns matters to the appropriate department.  If your police are a private business. Let's say contractor's.  Then you must be the worst leader in history.

 

 

[Destiny1990]

Close more parking spaces then make wider pavements etc then Lets begin introducing paid parking by the hour for all vehicles bikes cars etc in any soi in pattaya and jomtien from the ocean till sukumvit road.a good money maker for government and it will avoid people to use parking spots way to long.plus ban all parking on major roads bikes cars.

[johng]

If you ban parking and make people pay to park what happens is what we saw in the UK the high streets (small independent shops) die because everyone goes to the big supermarkets where there is free parking.

[Destiny1990]

4 hours ago, johng said:

If you ban parking and make people pay to park what happens is what we saw in the UK the high streets (small independent shops) die because everyone goes to the big supermarkets where there is free parking.

Parking at malls and supermarkets should need some payment also.

[johng]

When Central Festival the Beach first opened they tried charging for parking it didnt last long.

For the most part I dont agree with charging for parking,motorist already pay road tax and tax on fuel + VAT on everything bought at the shops.

restricted parking times and no parking zones are needed in certain places of course.

[angy]

On 13 gennaio 2017 at 0:07 PM, Rimmer said:

Having wiped out street vendors on Beach Road

now the street vendors regained their places, specially closer to the beginning of walking street, maybe better if fined seriously next time

[morrobay]

On 13/1/2560 at 2:03 PM, WhizBang said:

They have not solved the songtau problem.  They are sill making travel on any road they use near impassable as they stop anywhere they want, and often two or sometimes three deep.

 

And Sukhumvit is still an absolute mess due to the construction.
 

Well the songthaws were here first. So it would be correct to go after these yellow/blue/green bogus taxis that are all over the place jamming up the curb areas.

No only do they obstruct but these drivers are gross.

I dont understand their existence here: They directly compete with the songthaws. No the pie is not fixed but has the increase in tourist demand been proportional to the supply. Songthaws  + taxis ??

Edited January 24, 2017 by morrobay