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Buses on Beach Road
Editor;
Re: Facebook comments to “Tour buses create fear, loathing in Pattaya” (PM
Mailbag Friday, 15 August 2014) - Going back over 20+ years brings back
memories of my first arrival here. My bus from Bangkok dropped me off
outside Royal Garden Plaza. There we transferred to pickups to our lodgings.
The bus depot was in Soi 1 or 2 off Beach Road. The terminal at Pattaya nua
was used but not to the extent it is used today. The depot near TOT on
Pattaya klang is still in operation. For someone to say there were no buses
here 9 years ago must be visually impaired. To my knowledge buses have
always parked on Beach Road.
Sean Murphy
Buses better
than alternative
Editor;
Re: Facebook comments to “Tour buses create fear, loathing in Pattaya” (PM
Mailbag Friday, 15 August 2014) - You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Take a bus seating 50 people. Park it outside city. Now transfer those 50
people into taxis for a run into town. (Tourists staying at 5* hotels
deserve more than a seat on the load tray of an SUV.) For each bus you
exclude you have replaced it with 12 or 13 lesser sized vehicles. 2 bus
loads to Big Buddha Mountain or a convoy of 20 odd vehicles? Think about it.
Pattaya is a Tourist Mecca, and while many of us choose to live here we can
move on.
Bryan Patricks
Will it ever end?
Editor;
The forever ongoing construction/destruction of Soi Wat Boon Jomtien, will
it ever end? For the cost of it, you could have built a new road for less
and quicker.
Mattjom
Ed’s note: We’ve sent a crew out there to investigate and hopefully will
have a more definitive answer by next week.
Vans traveling Beach Road are the worst offenders
Editor;
Re: Tour buses create fear, loathing in Pattaya (PM Friday, 01 August 2014)
- I totally agree with you about these speeding buses. However, a lot of
these tourists fly into Bangkok, and travel through Pattaya on their way to
Nong Nooch. This might be all they see of Pattaya, but may bring them back
on their next trip. I can certainly see why it is done. I would not ban
them, but certainly their speed needs to be addressed. As mentioned by Don
Aleman, I would hate to see more vans traveling Beach Road. Unfortunately,
they are the worst offenders by far.
Stolisage
You have to be
an acrobat or bird
Dear Editor and Mayor;
In Pattaya, pedestrians are in peril on the road. When you want to cross the
street, either on Beach Rd., 2 rd., or 3 rd., you have to be an acrobat or
bird because nobody takes you into account. I invite the mayor to walk with
me around the city as a pedestrian to understand this writing. Why were the
traffic lights installed few years ago when no one is taken into account? A
particular problem are the taxi motor bikes that charge we aliens a higher
fee and are more dangerous than drivers on the road. To them there are no
rules, only those they write themselves. The price list is in Thai
languages. Please write in English to be better informed about the taxi
service. My road safety is at risk. What to do please.
Keric David-djevo
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