New Highway 7 extention from Bangkok to Pattaya

Dear Editor,

Thanks for listening to my ( our ) little problems, but for all the people living in Pattaya East, the traffic to go to Pattaya West and go back home is a major issue and problem.

There are basically five streets to go east from Sukhumvit and cross the railway, from North to South these are: Chaiyapornwithi ( Soi Crocodile Farm ), Soi Siam Country Club, ( Porn Praphanimit) , Soi Nernplabwan ( Soi Muslim), Soi Khaonoi and Soi Khaotalo. All these roads are traffic jammed with motorbikes and 3-wheelers and extremely dangerous to drive. All People living between Sukhumvit Road and Maprachan Lake have to suffer from this bad situation.

Now they build a brand new Highway, between these roads, and we cannot use it. There is an Entrance-Exit where the highway crosses Chaiyapornwithi Road, but only from and to Bangkok. It is not useable from and to Sukhumvit Road. This is really incredible, as it would be a major traffic release for these mentioned roads.

Please try to dig into this matter and find out why they do not provide the necessary entrance and exit to use the highway to go from Sukhumvit to Crocodile farm and back !

Thousand of people are concerned !

I tried to illustrate it on a google map, the red arrows show the existing Entrance/Exit, the green arrows show the one that they forgot…..and that would be so important for all of us living here !!!!!

I would like to present this to the decision-makers:

Subject: Additional Exit/ Entrance on the Highway Extension to Pattaya

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

We represent a huge number of locals and expats which are astonished that there will be no Exit/ Entry at the at the Chaiyapornwithi Road Crossing of the new Highway coming from / going to Pattaya (Sukhumvit Road).

If we all really want to experience the main benefit of this new Bypass, than it should be mandatory to have an Exit respectively Entry at this point too, a huge number of cars and trucks and busses would use the opportunity to get directly to the Maprachan Lake district as well as along the eastern part of the Chaiyapornwithi Road and its neighbouring areas as well as getting from there faster to the Sukhumvit Road.

Currently there is only an Exit / Entry at this point coming from Bangkok heading towards Pattaya and vice versa.

The existence of such an Exit /Entry for cars going to or coming from Pattaya would remarkably increase the benefit of this new Highway extension.  

Thanks a lot for your help, if you want to send a reporter team I would love to explain it again!

Best regards

Dr. Hans-Peter Mack