As of December 24th, the new regulations would be :
- baht bus will load passengers (and passengers will get off) only at designated places
- no more baht bus chartering
- baht bus queuing waiting for customers no more allowed (like the well-khown one near the school when going to Jomtien)
- and 4 new lines which should replace the existing ones with some bewildering novelties such as no more baht buses on Pattaya 2nd or on Soi Buakhao, and a rather weird routes on line 5.
and icing on the cake, a major fare hike has already been announced - probably to force the drivers to swallow the pill.
Of course whether these rules will be implemented or not remains to be seen. If they are, this could mean the end of the easy, cheap and convenient transport system that we had in Pattaya until now.
I could not find any detailed information except on http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/960 ... -signs-new where someone has posted pictures (thai text) seemingly from a Facebook account ; and also the City Hall website is currently down. So many questions remain unanswered such as : line numbers are 4, 5, 6, and 7, what about missing numbers ?
I guess we will know more once the local penpushers will have emerged from their Christmas partying. Some feedback from those who are now on the ground ?
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