The traffic is better, but Pattaya retailers are suffering after about 80 percent of tour buses disappeared from city streets.
Congestion on Pattaya’s roads resembles the dead of low season now that China has barred tour companies from selling or dispatching overseas tours. Weren’t shops and restaurants as empty, locals might actually celebrate.
Those missing traffic backups, however, can still drive to areas where the laying of new drainage pipes continues.
