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Sign of Untidy Times
Urasin Khantaraphan
If there’s an item or service for sale in Pattaya, there’s a good
chance there’s a billboard advertising it.
Signs, posters and advertising boards go up, but they rarely come down.
Most times, a new one is simply erected in front of the old. After
several years of booming tourist and expatriate growth in Pattaya, the
result has become urban blight.
City and district governments are keen to sell permits to erect signs,
but have shown far less interest in ensuring they’re taken down when the
permit period ends.
All major area roads are affected, including Sukhumvit, Pratamnak,
Jomtien Beach, North Pattaya, and Chaiyapruek. The problem is especially
bad on tourist-heavy Jomtien Beach and Pratamnak roads where boards even
block signs for public offices serving tourists.
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