Deputy Mayor Verawat
Khakhay addresses the group of community representatives who lined up to
air grievances over messy utility lines, broken lights, litter and
flooding.
Urasin Khantaraphan
Leaders of four more Pattaya communities lined up to air
grievances over messy utility lines, broken lights, litter and flooding
at the latest at Center for Resolution of Complaints forum on improving
living conditions.
Taking the podium at the June 30 meeting were representatives from the
Kophai, Thappraya, Walking Street and Koh Larn communities. Deputy Mayor
Verawat Khakhay and city councilmen Choosak Sriwatjanapong and Vichai
Nongyai noted complaints from each group.
Each of four communities complained about unsightly and sometimes
hazardous tangles of power, cable television and phone lines. Each also
griped about insufficient numbers of garbage cans, inefficient trash
pickup and litter problems caused by poor cleanup efforts by the city.
Walking Street leaders also called for more streetlights, repainted road
lines, defined areas for motorbike parking and a crackdown on the number
of advertising signs and posters.
The Thappraya Community wanted bent light poles righted and “no
littering” signs installed near Pattaya School No. 8 while Kophai called
for blocked drainage pipes to be cleaned.
On Koh Larn, complaints centered on parking scofflaws, particularly
commercial van and bus operators.
