Here is a quandary: Should Pattaya bury its power cables? To say the overhead cables in Pattaya City are messy is an understatement. They are probably best described as “electrical spaghetti.” To start burying power cables now would be an enormous task and bring huge disruption to the city, and the rate at which it’s expanding, developing and redeveloping would mean the cables constantly being buried and unburied, and at the same time making access harder and more time-consuming.
Update 2026: I published this article way back in 2013. Since then, beginning in 2018, Pattaya has buried many kilometers of cables underground. So far, cables have been buried along Walking Street, 3rd Road, and north, central, and south Pattaya roads.
I’ve updated this simply to add some better and more recognizable photos, and because, in its own unique way, Pattaya’s electrical spaghetti is somehow quite photogenic. What do you think?