Bangkok Considers Setting Up Hawker Centers Throughout City

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Bangkok authorities are looking to establish hawker centers as a permanent solution to disorganized street vendor stalls.

 

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said the aim is to provide street vendors with low-rent locations and residents with inexpensive food.

 

According to the governor, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is negotiating with relevant parties to use areas beneath expressways and vacant land as hawker centers. Several landowners have consented to lease their privately-owned land for use in the hawker project in exchange for low rents.

 

Chadchart recently led a team of BMA officials to survey the footpaths and sidewalks surrounding Phran Nok Market, one of 31 potential locations identified by the BMA.

 

Following the survey, Chadchartt said each approved location must be at least two meters wide and clearly marked with safety signs. One-meter width will be reserved for stalls while another will be space for pedestrians.

 

The Bangkok governor added that a weekly break from street vending on Mondays to allow for cleaning would remain in effect, though he was considering extending the break to every two weeks.

 

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[Emster23]

They may seem "disorganized" but being a fan of free market capitalism and "the invisible hand", my view is that they go where the customers are rather than some bureaucrat deciding where they should sell. Seems those bureaucrats can't stop themselves from gumming up the economy with all sorts of interferences

[Aussieroaming]

Sounds exactly the same thing that happened just a few years ago when some street vendors were corraled into set foodcart zones and told not to park on the street sidewalks again.

 

The only change is that last time the moved carts were dragged into clusters and they didn't call  the new foodcart cluster a "hawker centre". It sounds like someone from the BMA went on a holiday to Singapore recently, ate in a Hawker Centre and had a brain fart on the flight home.

 

So BMA will set up "hawker centres" i.e. another form of foodcourt or "food market" in addition to those in airconditioned shopping complexes and the BMA will then temporarily block street food carts from standing on selective footpaths for a few months. The foodcart owners will fail to pay hawker fees and the enforcers of the new law will fail to enforce the move properly and everything will go back to mormal like last time.

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok authorities are looking to establish hawker centers as a permanent solution to disorganized street vendor stalls.

Best of luck with that.

[PETERTHEEATER]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

One-meter width will be reserved for stalls while another will be space for pedestrians.

Ha ha ????

[DJ54]

The new Governor seems motivated for improvements… let’s give him a chance and hopefully he does well….

[nglodnig]

On 7/13/2022 at 1:44 PM, snoop1130 said:

One-meter width will be reserved for stalls while another will be space for pedestrians.

Yes just like the cycle path on the canal road in Chiang Mai. And evey market day is filled up with stalls.

[Lemsta69]

5 minutes ago, nglodnig said:

Yes just like the cycle path on the canal road in Chiang Mai. And evey market day is filled up with stalls.

everybody's gotta eat.

[peterfranks]

On 7/14/2022 at 10:01 AM, Aussieroaming said:

It sounds like someone from the BMA went on a holiday to Singapore recently, ate in a Hawker Centre and had a brain fart on the flight home.

Good, they should travel more, then maybe Thailand get their act together.