Pattaya —
Pattaya officials were set to meet with Walking Street venue operators to discuss rearranging billboards in preparation for the resumption of a wire-burying project in February 2023.
Pattaya Deputy Mayor Manoch Nongyai said Wednesday that Pattaya City and the Provincial Electricity Authority were joining hands to carry out the wire-burying project on Walking Street in South Pattaya.
The burying project had been done on nine main routes in Pattaya to increase security and fix power outage problems in the city that was on its course to becoming a high-tech city.
The project’s first phase on Walking Street had already been completed, and now the deputy mayor wanted to move on to the second phase scheduled in February 2023.
To ready the street, Manoch said he would convene with venue operators to ask them to remove some of their billboards that were obstructive. The billboards should be parallel with the buildings, suggested Manoch, and they should not protrude from the buildings more than 30-60 cm.
The billboards should be no more than 60 cm long also and no closer than 60 cm to the communication wires.
Manoch stated that he would announce an estimated completion date for the billboard removal project in January 2023. TPN will provide an update as soon as it becomes available.
