Ever since Thappraya Road first made its way over the hill between Pattaya and Jomtien, planners knew that it would be a wide 4-lane road. For all intents and purposes, it really is the only road between the cities of Pattaya and Jomtien until you come to Sukhumvit Road, another 3 or 4 miles inland. Therefore, all buildings that are located along Thappraya Road are set quite far back from the narrow little road — rare for Pattaya — built with the understanding that eventually the road would be widened to almost triple its current width.At the beginning of this year, the work to widen Thappraya Road began, and was proceeding along smoothly. However, the work mysteriously halted, all the workers left, and now a half-finished highway project has been sitting there creating problems for local residents for 2 or 3 months.
This happens so often in Pattaya — road projects becoming annoying nuisances and not being finished until City Hall steps in to demand that work be finished — that I'm beginning to suspect that it's actually a ploy. There must be some benefit to be had from waiting, stalling, mismanaging, and generally screwing up road projects in Pattaya. It happens so often (with almost 100% consistency) that I would really doubt any other explanation.
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Thought you might enjoy this:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007400839,00.html
Enjoyable yes... but unfortunately lacking in enough detail for a Pattaya-specific blog posting. Who, when, where, and why are all missing... although the crazy ladyboy lead is a bunch of fun!
Hopefully something turns up to flesh out the story.
p.s.: It seems I've already covered the "general" story here as the top story in my Pattaya news roundup... although the story seems to have been expanded upon in its re-telling. (This is according to comments associated with the link provided above.)
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