Councilman Banlue
Kullavanijaya has made untangling the spaghetti-like network of wires in
his district his personal crusade.
Manoon Makpol
Pattaya will take another stab at trying to clean up
the tangled mess of telephone and electrical cables along Sukhumvit
Road.
At an Oct. 20 Pattaya City Hall meeting, Councilman
Banlue Kullavanijaya said work will begin Nov. 9 in front of Pattaya
School No. 7 and continue into December.
Banlue has made untangling the spaghetti-like network
of wires in his district his personal crusade, twice dragging telephone
and utility company workers to Sukhumvit Road to watch as city workers
pulled unused wires off poles in front of a pack of photographers. This
time, at least, he’s giving them some warning.
The Nov. 9 effort, from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.,
targets telephone, cable television and electricity cables on the
western side of Sukhumvit near the Pattaya city border. Workers will
then move to the Thepprasit Road intersection Nov. 23 and finally to
Central Road’s intersection on Dec. 8.
Banlue called the mess of cables ugly and unnecessary
and pledged to continually monitor the situation, noting utility company
workers simply string up new lines without ever removing out-of-service
cables.
