Traffic

Riza's Mike likes to say how he never wants to go to Walking Street because of the traffic there.

I think he's got things mixed up: It takes me longer to drive the 2 miles down Soi Osama Bin Laden to Sukhumvit Road than it does to drive the 2 miles from Sukhumvit Road to Walking Street... and that is on a motorcycle.

The traffic here in the suburbs is much worse than in Pattaya proper... because the roads out here were all built (and remain) as 2-lane country roads that are now playing host to hundreds of vehicles at a time. At least in Pattaya, you have 4-plus lanes to get around in. On Soi OBL, if a car stops to make a turn, everyone behind him (motorcycles included) have to stop.