fforest Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 (edited) On 10/23/2022 at 5:55 PM, fforest said: Bye bye Palm trees...The only positive improvement they have made in ages to the walkway... Just to be clear, I never use to hate Palm Trees until they planted ONLY Palm trees everywhere....I cant remember a single shade tree ever being planted anywhere in Pattaya... Edited October 26, 2022 by fforest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 3 hours ago, fforest said: Just to be clear, I never use to hate Palm Trees until they planted ONLY Palm trees everywhere....I cant remember a single shade tree ever being planted anywhere in Pattaya... Probably because shade trees are slow growing and require careful maintenance in the early years after being transplanted. Key word here is "maintenance", which from what I've seen doesn't have an equivalent word in Thai. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lt Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, forcebwithu said: Key word here is "maintenance", which from what I've seen doesn't have an equivalent word in Thai. How about payoff or snouts in trough? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 7 hours ago, forcebwithu said: That looks like a footing for new curbs, which you can see haphazardly piled to the left and stacked in the background. That begs the question why they're putting in curbs next to the existing road as the news reports said they were adding an additional lane on the north end of Beach Rd? You can also see in the photo that the trees have not been removed at the north end. The roadside tree removal seems to from about Soi 4 to Pattaya Klang, but in that distance there are 3 non-palm trees that remain, including one at the shrine about Soi6. My thoughts were it could be a parking lane where the odd blockage doesn't matter and it's not going to be the full length. This would free up the left most lane by removing the tour buses to the parking lane, and would further improve traffic flow as the swarms wouldn't have to cross the road (although they would be getting off he "wrong" side of the bus so any parking lane had better be wide enought for this). 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Road works near the Temple/Tukcom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Soi 15 around The Avenue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Second Road is effectively a single lane road. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 It does look as if the additional lane is going to start further along the road. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Looks like they are making ZERO progress on 2nd road and Soi 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajs123 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 For our very kind photo reporters, thank you for the updates. I am hoping that the road construction noise does not disturb one's sleep - I am booked to stay at the Dynasty Inn in Soi 13. It looks like the section of second road near the hotel is still not complete. Would any of you know what time the work starts and ends? Thank you in advance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 19 minutes ago, rajs123 said: For our very kind photo reporters, thank you for the updates. I am hoping that the road construction noise does not disturb one's sleep - I am booked to stay at the Dynasty Inn in Soi 13. It looks like the section of second road near the hotel is still not complete. Would any of you know what time the work starts and ends? Thank you in advance. I was there I think it was around 2 months ago. It will be noisy as hell in Dynasty Inn during the day. Traffic and dust slow and thick. Be prepared. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom51red Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Glasseye said: I was there I think it was around 2 months ago. It will be noisy as hell in Dynasty Inn during the day. Traffic and dust slow and thick. Be prepared. What ge said,the bastards woke me up and i was further down the soi in whitehouse condotel,if i was you id change location as i did after 1 week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painter Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 17 hours ago, rajs123 said: For our very kind photo reporters, thank you for the updates. I am hoping that the road construction noise does not disturb one's sleep - I am booked to stay at the Dynasty Inn in Soi 13. It looks like the section of second road near the hotel is still not complete. Would any of you know what time the work starts and ends? Thank you in advance. As of today, 31st October, 10.00hrs... From pattaya tai, heading north, the first real noisy bit is between the soi 15 junction and Royal Garden, where they are piledriving the surrounds for, presumably, the new drains covers From then on its car parking... This pile of steels is opposite royal garden, se presumably it'll get noisy there soon Outside barracuda Opposite soi 13 and Dynasty, It all seems to end just before soi diana It seems to me that the concrete has been broken, dug, and presumably the drains laid outside the Avenue.... the surface is dug and compacted sand at the moment. My best guess, and it is only a guess, is that they have to reduce the height slighty and then relay the cement roadtop, then finito. But when they will do this, who knows. In answer to your question, no noise outside Dynasty today at 10.00, and also silence apart from traffic yesterday at 18.00, but it was Sunday.... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painter Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Today they were washing soi 15, presumably trying to clear the road of the small grit that covers it. Unfortunately they were having to sweep the water/grit up hill to the drains Further up by Centara, the "walkway" had been narrowed, but not by enough to stop fearless explorers.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 14 hours ago, Painter said: Today they were washing soi 15, presumably trying to clear the road of the small grit that covers it. Unfortunately they were having to sweep the water/grit up hill to the drains Noticed that too after the rains last week there was a lot of water left standing on the road surface due to the drains being at a higher elevation. On a positive note they at least made the drains flush with the road surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 These were taken around 0830 this morning. At the same location this afternoon traffic was down to a single lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 21 hours ago, john luke said: There were taken around 0830 this morning. At the same location this afternoon traffic was down to a single lane. God almighty. 2nd road is going to be f***d all through high season I reckon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Four lanes now down effectively to one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 It looks like some drainage measures (trough being dug) plus a wider paved area at the northern end. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Second Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 I don't understand why they had to dig up the north end of the Beach Rd footpath. The footpath was in no worse condition than the rest of Beach Rd and the curb certainly didn't need replacing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 4 hours ago, forcebwithu said: I don't understand why they had to dig up the north end of the Beach Rd footpath. The footpath was in no worse condition than the rest of Beach Rd and the curb certainly didn't need replacing. Job security ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 24 minutes ago, Glasseye said: Job security ? I'm thinking more along the lines of keeping those brown envelopes full. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painter Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 It had to happen.... They are digging soi 15 up behind the Avenue mall. Admittedly it looks like they are only digging up the small pad around the drain covers, but maybe someone has realised that having the drain covers above the road surface will mean the road will end up with large puddles several inches deep in places, and so they are trying to lower the covers.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 New footpath and other works in Naklua. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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