2 PATTAYA TODAY
NEWS
Vol. 8 No. 5 ! 16 -30 November 2008
Underground cables raise their heads again
DEPUTY mayor Ronakit Ekasingh announced to an intrigued audience of government employees and outside
organizations that Pattaya’s beach road myriad assembly of telephone lines, electric cables and water pipes will soon go underground after all.
It’s three years since the previous administration promised to complete this work in order to beautify Pattaya’s beach road and get rid of numerous eyesores. But the project never got under way thanks to a miscellany of factors such as budgets running out, confusion about contracts and even a touch of lethargy it has to be said. But Mr Ronakit stated that all this was behind us now. The city had a plan now to put all the cables underground on a budget of 200 million baht which would cover the area
from the Dusit Thani hotel to Walking Street. He added that earnest discussions had been held with the phone companies, the electric company and the water authority to speed things up. There would be a monthly fee of 2,000 baht for state enterprises to rent a trench tunnel underground, but there was as yet no set price for the private sector. One of the best things about the project is that the electric poles which diminish the charm of beach road will disappear for good. Hopefully, the work will take about a year, even less according to the optimists.
Glasses handed out to students
ON November 7, president of Pattaya One World for Sharing
Mrs Nittaya Patimasongkraw, together with club members,
handed out spectacles to students and teachers who couldn’t see very well at Sattahip Wittayakom School, Na Jomtien. Mrs Nittaya said that the project originated with the YWCA and was done in conjunction with Pattaya Sports Club. So far the project had given out 120,000 pairs of specs throughout the province. Each person needing specs receives them only after a thorough eye test to make sure the prescription is the right one.