The Dolphin Roundabout in Pattaya will disappear
Where Second Road in Pattaya ends in the north, it joins Pattaya Nua and Naklua Road to the Dolphin Roundabout. There, the three traffic flows must continue their way according to the traffic rules of a roundabout.
Second Road traffic has three options. Namely turn left onto Beach Road, take the half roundabout to Naklua Road or take three quarters of the roundabout for Pattaya Nua towards Sukhumvit. From Pattaya Nua you cannot turn to Second Road, because that is a one-way street, but you can turn to Beach Road and Naklua Road. From Naklua Road it was originally possible to choose Pattaya Nua or take the whole roundabout to Beach Road. The entrance and exit of the Dusit Thani Hotel and the small Soi 25 of Naklua Road also join the roundabout.
The Dolphin Roundabout is, also for taxi drivers, a nice orientation point and it is also nicely set up with a monument that depicts a dolphin. But crossing and merging in the right direction was not very successful, sometimes the police regulate the traffic, but usually the law of the strongest or the most brutal on the roundabout applied and so there were often long traffic jams.
It was decided to no longer allow traffic from Naklua Road to the roundabout. If that traffic wants to go to Beach Road, it has to turn about 400 meters further on Pattaya Nua via a U-turn and then take the half roundabout to Beach Road. A U-turn in Thailand is a problem in itself, but it is also not clearly marked for people who are not familiar with the situation.
New situation
It is now going to change, according to years of talk at city hall. See the sketch in the photo, which is life-size at the roundabout, how the changes will take place to a traffic junction with traffic lights. It is not yet known when the work will start or when it will be finished.
Issue
I do have a problem for the creators of the new situation. The large trucks supplying Tesco-Lotus come from the highway via Sukhumvit on Pattaya Nua, take the roundabout all the way to get to Tesco-Lotus on the right side. This will no longer be possible in the new situation and the lorries will have to choose a different route.
About this blogger
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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Another icon of old Pattaya must disappear I say too bad and good luck to Pattaya in bringing in your quality tourists from the BRIC countries and the sandbox who spend 8 euros a day.
Is that BRIC and that 8 euros a day based on facts? Would be interesting to read this. In the Netherlands there has also been talk of BRIC countries for years, but then there was a recession in Brazil, disappointing Chinese growth and sanctions against Russia that caused the Robel to collapse (that vacancy in little Russia in Jomtien… oops). If it now appears that BRIC is on the rise again, then I am curious and interested to read / learn how this came about.
In the Netherlands you see many Chinese, but all from a lower segment (spending pattern) than before.
Thank you for sharing your resource.
They just mess around in Pattaya : no policy or foresight . The traffic chaos is only increasing . Traffic lights or no traffic lights, the average Thai doesn't care.
Do not panic. The fountain does not disappear, but is only moved.