Just before Halloween, the city fathers' left hand promoted the "Pattaya Halloween Festival" from Oct 29-31, and the city fathers' right hand started tearing up 2nd road south of Pattaya Tai, causing it to be one way going south to north.
The effect of this was that you could only go north on 2nd Road, but to go back south (to Jomtien or Pratumnak Hill), you had to go up to 3rd Road to head south. Traffic was a nightmare, more so than usual...just as the town was heading into peak season.
This road work lasted until around New Years Day, approximately 8 weeks.
Then, we had a week of lovely two way traffic on the new concrete slab roads, with the hope that no more potholes would be developing at the first rains as before.
And, now, here we are about a week into happiness, and they have started again.
They have torn up the southern intersection at Pattaya Tai and 2nd Road again, torn up the entry to Thappraya after passing under the 3rd road underpass, and strung rope down the middle of 2nd Road to make it impossible to make a right turn (going south) into Soi 14, 15, and Diamond.
The good news is that this will impede the traffic coming from Jomtien and Pratumnak Hill, thus reducing the number of Russians in town while the road works continue.
I'm going to try including a google map to show this...here it is http://goo.gl/maps/o24i
It sure would be nice if they would plan these projects around low season.