Set to be ripped up, Pattaya Walking Street gets scrubbed

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Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, his wife Sukumol and local government and business employees converged on Walking Street to give it a good scrubbing before the heavy equipment arrives.

Pattaya officials and civil servants on Thursday scrubbed Walking Street, even though parts of the roadway will be ripped up starting Monday.



Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, his wife Sukumol and local government and business employees grabbed brooms and washed down the South Pattaya nightlife strip, calling it a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, his wife Sukumol together with local residents raise their fists in solidarity before giving Walking street a good scrubbing.

Dust and dirt will quickly return to Walking Street Monday when the Provincial Electricity Authority starts digging up the roadway to bury overhead power and communications lines.

The mayor said he wanted to give people a chance to snap photos of a clean Walking Street filled with wires and power poles as a memory before the PEA removes them.

Sonthaya said he hopes domestic tourists will return to Walking Street and the city soon as the government has lowered the coronavirus alert level in the province from deep red to orange. (PCPR)

The mayor says the event was held to welcome back tourists when they come, and to give people a chance to take photos of the street with tangled webs of wires before they disappear.







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