The Best of Pattaya City's New Road and Safety Projects

Public Health service is available for tourism-related and entertainment workers. Naklua Beach has a Walking Street. Coral Island (Koh Larn) is getting massive electrical supply for growth. When will you take the tunnel to cross Sukhumvit Highway? Read on to find out what this all means for Pattaya City.

Pattaya is known as the most international city in Asia and is also one of the most progressive cities. Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and his young, western-minded, energetic team have bonded well with the long-serving Thai professionals at Pattaya City Hall to achieve exceptional results in improving the infrastructure of Asia’s largest beach resort. Pattaya Times spoke with the likeable mayor and was invited to join a think tank conference led by the Pattaya Deputy Chief of Administration.



Pattaya City Command and Control Room in Pattaya City Hall is a leader in Thailand.

So long Thappraya Road, hello Jomtien Second Road. Jomtien will begin at the south end of Pattaya Third Road as Pattaya City completes the new, six-lane Jomtien Second Road takes over Thappraya Road, curves behind Immigration, continues through the Jomtien Beach Condo buildings, crosses Bunkanjana Road continuing southward overtaking Bunkanjana Soi 5, crosses Chaiyapruk Road and overtakes Chaiyapruk Soi 3. Then almost opposite in latitude from Jomtien Beach Soi 19, it makes a 90 degree eastward turn onto Soi Riding Horse
Club and ends at Sukhumvit Road, said the Pattaya City Planner. The last segment will take 6-8 months to complete, she added.

The total project has received more than one billion baht in funding with hundreds of millions of baht coming from the Thailand Highway Department of Rural Roads. There were 474 pieces of land in the way of the construction most of which needed to be bought 50 meters deep
and will cost about 600 million baht. All but 14 pieces of land have been purchased. Completion of the segment from Pattaya Third Road to Immigration is expected to be completed in the next few months. There are seven different contractors all of whom must pay fines if their segment of road is not completed by January 1, 210 the mayor said.

Underground is the best place for electrical wiring and other utilities.
Jomtien Beach Second Road will be 7.521 kilometers long and all electric, water supply, telephone cables, internet lines will be underground. The biggest problem is with the segment near Bruno’s and Pan Pan restaurants where contractors have to dig very deep to bury the main electrical interchange and transformers. Pattaya Beach Road also has all utilities underground, said the Pattaya Director of Construction Control Division.

Look out, criminals.
According to the Chief of Information Technology for Pattaya, Police and city officials monitor 277 CCTV cameras at The Command and Control Room (CCR) on the second floor of Pattaya City Hall. Pattaya has lots of petty crime as most beach resorts do, but very few big crimes. The three biggest crimes in the last four years were the bank robbery on Central Pattaya Road, the murder of two Russian ladies on the beach at night and the daring daylight robbery assault style at the Jomtien gold shop. All three crimes were solved thanks to the CCTV system and the CCR, said the Pattaya Chief of Research and Information Technology Subdivision. Cost to set up the CCR and CCTV was 800 million baht and the budget is 6 million baht per month to operate with 5 million baht of surveillance per year outsourced.

The CCR also regulates the Area Traffic Control (ATC) and includes sensor checks in the pavement at Sukhumvit intersections whereby underground road sensors calculate the number of cars waiting at traffic lights in each direction and are specially designed to automatically
adjust the length of time the traffic light changes based on calculations. This system is monitored 24-hours a day and manually controlled to make safe and quick passage for caravans of VIPs and Royalty.

The CCR is in charge of the information touch screen kiosks, the sprinklers on Sukhumvit Highway the internal computer network the two City Hall buildings, 11 public schools and all four points of Sea Rescue as well as the mobile unit for house book and Thai ID card registrations, replacements and renewals and the mobile unit library and Soi Watbun library in the Youth Sport Center.



20,000 people everyday call Pattaya City Call Center on 1337 for infor and complains.

Call us for help and information.
The Pattaya Call Center 1337 with their exceptional service is a model for all call centers in Thailand. More than 20,000 calls are answered every day, 24-hours a day. Every complaint is directed to the mayor and is answered, said the Pattaya Director of Research and Technology. Service is in Thai and English with 20% of callers voicing complaints and 80% asking for directions, telephone numbers, tourist attraction information and city services, he added.

Bangkok weekenders please drive along the railroad tracks.
Rural roads 1 and 2 run from Highway 36 to Chaiyapruk Road either side of the railroad tracks. As bad as Sukhumvit Highway traffic is, it would be unbearable if some of the overflow from Bangkok and Rayong residents visiting and shopping here for the weekend did not use these new roads on leased land from the Department of Railroads for only two million baht per year.

Public Health service is available for tourism-related and entertainment workers.
Many of the professionals who work in the entertainment and hotel industry rent rooms in the Soi Buakhao area of Central Pattaya so the city built a health clinic the Public Health and Environment Office open every day
but Saturday from 8:30 am. to 7:00pm. Doctors are on staff to treat accident victims, sick patients and to provide checkups. No overnight care, though.

Naklua Beach has a Walking Street.
Every Saturday and Sunday night at the very northern end of Pattaya’s Naklua Road the streets near “Larn Po” (the big tree in the centre of Naklua Road), converted to foot traffic only. Also called ‘100 Years Market’ it is a project of Pattaya City in association with the Tourism Authority of Thailand Pattaya Office. Thais and foreigners experience the traditional lifestyle of the rural Thai people of over 100 years ago which has been brought back to life at Naklua's ‘Old Town’. There are many booths selling seafood, ancient drinks, traditional Thai products as well as many other entertaining activities. It is open from now until at least February, 2010. Pattaya City supplies provisions for toilets, first-aid services, parking, police surveillance, traffic control and spaces for vendors to sell good products at low prices. The area is very beautiful and reminiscent of the small fishing village all of Pattaya once was.

Coral Island (Koh Larn) is getting massive electrical supply for growth.
Soon the nearby island, which is a part of Pattaya City, will have massive amounts of potential for growth with the undersea electrical cable supply the Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is installing from the shore in front of Pattaya Park to Koh Larn. Pattaya already this year installed wind turbines to produce clean energy. However, as Pattaya mainland is growing so fast city planners are preparing for the development of Koh Larn.

When will you take the tunnel to cross Sukhumvit Highway?
Maybe it will happen sooner than you think. According to Ann the Pattaya Urban Planner there is a feasibility study underway to offer the best solution for Sukhumvit Highway crossings at the four main roads in Central Pattaya that run East and West: Pattaya Nua (North), Pattaya Klang (Central) Pattaya Tai (South) and Thepprasit Road. She has diagrams of bridges over the highway, tunnels under the highway and covered two-tiered tunnels to reduce traffic accidents at these major intersections and speed the flow of traffic.