fforest Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 I loved the sitting areas they use to have around the trees in the walkway... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpat Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 There was a post in Thai about second road and the best I could understand from it was that July 10 is the projected date to finish the work on Second Road. That could be a misreading but it gives me some hope that it will finish at some point. As for soi 15, it is a nightmare at both ends and now the construction people have dumped a lot of big pipes and metal slats on the end near Second Road. Are they soon planning on finishing that side or do they just need a place to store their junk? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpat Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 The walkway along Beach Road was so much better until they "improved" it. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 40 minutes ago, fforest said: Thanks, guys for the beach photos......I would take more but it's depressing looking at the mess and all that concrete they are covering the walkway with...(except for the bloody Palm trees, of course)...lol......... No money for plants, but plenty of money it seems for some very bad ass and powerful looking 5G broadcasting stations..... 5G could have a very long thread in itself.... But I would think they would want to be broadcasting all this 5G goodness toward the city of Pattaya and not onto the walkway as in, at least the picture above..... Internet reception is already very good on the beach... No broadcasting involved. The 5G is just a marketing gimmick to mean 5th generation pole. All the destruction they've done to the footpath is to bury the power and data feeds to the "5G pole". In case you're wondering, this is what the 1G pole looked like. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Hope no one is in a rush to use the beach shower. Like most projects here, they get started on the project and then like a kid with attention deficit disorder lose interest and seemingly abandon the project. Morning roll call for lifeguards. Still don't know if they can swim as I've never seen them in the water. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) This video shows how few people hang on the beach in the day time these days...By the shadows, I guess this was taken between 1.30 - 3 PM.... Edited June 17, 2023 by fforest 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 7 hours ago, fforest said: This video shows how few people hang on the beach in the day time these days...By the shadows, I guess this was taken between 1.30 - 3 PM.... Looks like 5th ave. at rush hour compared to during covid lockdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Glasseye said: Looks like 5th ave. at rush hour compared to during covid lockdown. In case we forget.......These pictures were taken on the beach around the same time as this video 10 years ago.....Maybe an hour later or so... Edited June 17, 2023 by fforest 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 A week on and a little update..Soi Dianna to Pattaya Tai.......lots of concrete put down.... By The Avenue...... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) Soi 15 Edited June 19, 2023 by Blue Streak 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Last few, had a though,have these pipes been joined up with the ones across the other side of Pattaya Tai ? This is just past Soi 16 where all the pipes meet up and go down the canal..... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpat Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 It looks like they are going to have to dig up the intersection of Pattaya Tai and Second Road to connect the pipes... I sure hope not ... We will soon see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 55 minutes ago, johnpat said: It looks like they are going to have to dig up the intersection of Pattaya Tai and Second Road to connect the pipes... I sure hope not ... We will soon see. What they have done to Pattaya Tai really makes me shake my head. When they finished the roadworks and pavements it looked bloody excellent. Then they started digging it up again to do various jobs and it started looking a mess again.. and dirty !!! I walked up there a few days ago and noticed that they have installed new lamp posts. No idea if they are connected or whether the pavement will be dug up again to provide power, but what screams out at me is that they are not in a straight line but higgledy-piggledy along the length of the pavement ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 5 hours ago, Derek Dangleberries said: What they have done to Pattaya Tai really makes me shake my head. When they finished the roadworks and pavements it looked bloody excellent. Then they started digging it up again to do various jobs and it started looking a mess again.. and dirty !!! I walked up there a few days ago and noticed that they have installed new lamp posts. No idea if they are connected or whether the pavement will be dug up again to provide power, but what screams out at me is that they are not in a straight line but higgledy-piggledy along the length of the pavement ... Had a look for myself at where they planted the light poles. And sure enough, not that I ever doubted you, they must have used a random number generator to decide how far from the curb they were going to plant each pole. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Photos of the new median they're putting in on Thepprasit. What's odd is there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason where they're putting in the cut throughs. Standing at a cut through where there are no soi's intersecting Thepprasit, looking towards Sukhumvit. Same cut through looking west. Not sure if this will eventually be a cut through for Soi 11. Across from the Forum, which is closed, they have a cut through, but for west bound traffic wanting to go to the market another 25m distance, they'll have to do a U-Turn and then quickly make their way across two lanes of busy traffic. A recipe for traffic accidents. There's another cut through near, but not directly opposite Soi 15. Bizarre placement of that cut through. There's a cut through for those going to and coming from Soi 17, but if you live in the T.W. Palm/Jomtien Beach Condos and you're east bound, it's going to be another 1km of travel past the entrance and a couple of U-Turns to get to your condo. Or if you're on two wheels you can do what most are doing, and what I did this morning visiting a friend who lives there and use this cut through to travel about 20m against traffic to get to the entrance. Amazing Thailand. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boydeste Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 8 hours ago, Derek Dangleberries said: they are not in a straight line but higgledy-piggledy along the length of the pavement ... Wow, I haven't heard that term for donkeys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 5 hours ago, forcebwithu said: Had a look for myself at where they planted the light poles. And sure enough, not that I ever doubted you, they must have used a random number generator to decide how far from the curb they were going to plant each pole. It is the same all the way down. The clear stretch in front the Pattaya City Resort is exactly the same. They had the whole bloody pavement space with no impediment to do a proper job and still made a mess of it !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The concreting is now all the way down to Pattaya Klang and the paving a few yards past the Twin Palms on Beach Rd... Loads of tarmac gone down on the concrete outside The Avenue on Sai 2..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 It looks like they were not content destroying the parks and replacing the sidewalks with Grade-D ,El-Cheapo pavers....Now its time to wreak havoc on the roads.....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpat Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 They've begun to move the construction area into the Second Road and Pattaya Tai intersection. Looking in the hole I can see problems. There are a large number of pipes crossing the trench visible in the hole. They drop one of the huge black drainage pipes in the trench like in other places. They are going to have to relocate all those small pipes first. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpat Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 In November of 2021 they started destroying soi 15 at this end and it looks like they are finally going to finish the job and connect the soi 15 drainage system with the second road drainage system and restore the roadway completely. Then they'll have to work on finishing the other end connecting Soi Buakaow to the Soi 15 drainage system.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Picked a bad day for an update on Beach Rd.... Just north of Pattaya Klang.....the concrete ends..... And just by the entrance to Hard Rock from Beach Rd the paves stop.... Edited June 24, 2023 by Blue Streak 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Soi 15, late afternoon.....the start.....road block of sorts... the gear.... looking from Sai 2..... The holes in Sai 2 by Soi 15.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Down to the Pattaya Tai junction........ Up to The Avenue....all that tarmac laid...... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 cont.. Soi Dianna...... Down to Pattaya Klang and Beach Rd...... What I noticed the other day all these drop downs have been built up at the north end of the beach so when it rains heavy all the water will head to Walking Street...... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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