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More about Soi Paniad
Chang footpaths
Editor,
Further to your campaign to have the wheelchair friendly footpath completed
outside the Redemptorist Vocational School, there is another footpath,
presumably for wheelchair users as it has ramps, outside the Tan Trarak
School a little further along. When it is finished I will be interested to
see how anyone, let alone wheelchair users, get round the electric pole in
the middle of the path, or the postbox, or the traffic signs at the end.
Yours,
John Malpass
Not sure about your facts
Editor;
Re: Chiang Mai as Thailand’s heaven for backpackers (PM Saturday, 15 March
2014) - I’m not sure where you’re getting your facts. Yes Chiang Mai is low
cost. Dorm rooms from 50 baht a night. Easy to find a guesthouse for 3000
baht a month. Burgers are from 20bt, street food from 10bt.
Want a motorbike for exploring a little farther? Red Ride will deliver one
for as low as 50bt a day. In my travels, I find this a better deal than
Hanoi. And more to see and do around northern Thailand, too.
Jeffrey McCollum
Is Armageddon already happening?
Editor,
Referring to the article: ‘Science academies explain global warming
reality’; surely all right-minded people want global warming to be brought
under control sooner than rather then later when it’s too late to stop its
worst effects from happening?
And yet politicians would rather bicker amongst themselves than do anything
positive to address the global crisis. When I read about Facebook paying $19
billion for a stupid technology company just so it can keep its edge on the
social media market, I’m tempted to give up in despair. Can you imagine how
much good could be done with $19 billion dollars?
I actually think it’s getting too late to save humanity; my grief is that we
are going to destroy the whole planet’s ecology in our self centred attempts
to make the super rich richer and the vast majority of the world’s over
global population even more desperately poor. The overriding message should
be birth control for the starving billions who are destroying the planet to
eke out their miserable existences.
Philip Fletcher
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Re: anti-smoking letters
of your last issue
Editor;
I said what I had to say and I appreciate the Pattaya Mail allowing me the
forum to do so. It is nice to know that there is at least one objective
newspaper in Thailand, despite would be censors like Genebbb. I won’t reply
to Michael Nightingale’s letter because very honestly it merits no reply. As
for GeneBBB the promoter of Science and censorship, I might remind him that
sixty years ago scientists told us that dinosaurs had scaly skin. Now they
are telling us that these same creatures have feathers. The thing about
scientific reports is that all too often they are incomplete, much like the
Surgeon General’s report on second hand smoke. But based on these last
exchanges, it is now fairly clear to me that people will believe what they
want to believe based on their agenda, so I would imagine that we smokers
will have to continue to live with unfair taxation and people with a
confused agenda.
John Arnone
Yasothon
Where is the logic?
Editor;
I have lived on Thappraya Road for twelve years. In that time the area has
turned from a simple road with reasonable traffic flow to a two lane highway
that is regularly gridlocked at the junction with Thepprasit and has been
the scene of many accidents. The U-turn system has never worked at any
point. How could it when the narrowness of the carriageways prevents large
vehicles like buses from turning?
This road is also the scene of a massive building program of condos all
proudly sporting the statement “EIA Approved”. I understand that nothing
happens until this paper is issued, which of course makes it highly sought
after. It means “Environmental Impact Assessment Approved”. Note the word
“assessment”: does that then simply mean that the condo can now go up and
the authorities will take a look at the impact the thing has on the
environment when it is built?
Daily we have no water, often we have power cuts, daily we have traffic
jams, the air in Thappraya is becoming polluted and still the condos go up.
Every one of these developments, which run into dozens with some claiming to
have one thousand box style rooms, will attract hundreds of cars and
motorcycles together with massive water and power consumption.
The environmental impact is already overwhelming, yet the EIA signs continue
to go up. Where is the common sense, where is the planning, where is the
logic?
Richy
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Report is ridiculous
Editor;
Re: Report condemns Thai driving (PM Mailbag Friday, 21 March 2014) - Having
lived and worked in the Middle East and North Africa in places like Kuwait
and Morocco I can tell you this report is ridiculous. Thailand is dangerous
for drivers, I’ll grant you that. But it doesn’t hold a candle to the
dangerous driving in Kuwait, Saudi, Morocco and similar countries. Not even
close.
John Neilson
Rubbish
Editor;
Dear Mr Mayor, your tropical resort is rapidly becoming a rubbish resort, if
it is not already there. I look from my balcony, rubbish is everywhere at
the sides of the road. I used to do some sailing a few years ago, and many
times in Jomtien Bay my boat sailed into a carpet of rubbish/plastic
bags/polystyrene food trays, plus a smell. They have a 5-day international
yachting race here every year, what they must think I do not know. A city
this size should have a modern waste recycle plant. Building/renovation
should be curtailed, and need planning permission. Tourists are the life
blood of Pattaya, but all they see is decomposing plastic bags. One day you
will kill the golden goose.
Matt Jomtien
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