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petercool, on 2012-05-03 12:40:50, said:

Yes it is a complete joke.  I will admit one thing…someone really does know how to bring all types of events to this town.  It seems there is an event every other weekend.  For instance we just had a “Music Festival” and it brought the entire road system infrastructure (haha) to a complete halt.

Some idiot came up with the idea to turn major streets into one-way streets to the point that it caused people to stay on the road 5 times longer just to figure out how to get to where they were going.  This city is a living hell when events come to town and even worse when that idiot jumps up and decides to close down Pattaya Tai to be one-way probably because Beach Road has been closed.

My friend was trying to go back to his hotel and must have tried 3-4 different ways to get there only to find out every single way was blocked.  He had to end up running a blockade on Soi 8 because it only had 3 useless police instead of the 8 useless bodies that were on Soi 7.  Are you telling me they couldn’t block all the side sois at a point much closer to Beach Raod instead of right at 2^nd road…come on.

The city holds all these events, IMO, to bring in money so they can spend millions and millions of baht on useless projects like high-tech crosswalks that very few people use and even fewer drivers pay attention to or the old standby...to line official’s pockets with tea money or both.

There are better solutions out there, but the idiots in this town are incapable of an original thought that actually works.  One solution is to actually enforce traffic laws I believe must be on the books, but are completely ignored such as double-parking on major thoroughfares or worse yet on streets barely wide enough for two small cars… thanks goodness for the motorbike.

…and on and on and on…

lovetotravel, on 2011-12-31 10:32:55, said:

Agree 100%...this is the only topic worth discussing, otherwise it's all just a bunch of talk.  If the national police can not be held accountable from the top down, if no elected politician can hold them accountable then what's the point of any of this.  It always has been and it always will be this way.  Thai people, mostly those in positions to extort money, namely government employees, care much more about money than life itself.

I was pretty sure I recently read where some guy had to pay 800 baht for the express service at Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  I think he saw a sign that said 200 baht normal and double for express, but for some reason his final bill was 800 baht.  He also had trouble finding the right building as we all know taxi drivers don't know crap about their own town.  So if I were offered a reasonable fee by the translation service to register the document at MFA I'd take it.

Pib, on 2011-05-07 19:51:24, said:

I have not been able to reach the "www.tsp.gov" website for about a week also.  Turning off my modem did nothing.  My GF's computer can not reach the website.  I use Firefox and tried to get access with IE and still no good.  I've searched the internet for anything that may have happened recently, but find nothing.  One thing seems to be clear...the browser is not resolving the website name so something may be wrong with whatever DNS server my browser/service provider is connecting to.  I also tried using the raw IP address to access the site and I get the same result..."waiting", then "the connection was reset" from Firefox.