Patong Beach Road Parking

[KarenBravo]

The governor, tuk-tuk association and the bike/car rental people agreed on a formula of 30% for them and 70% for the public for the parking spaces along the Patong Beach road.

Has this happened, or, has it turned out as just empty words as usual?

[Pakaty]

I have not counted the spaces and done the math. But my impression is that the rental companies have the same amount of space as they did before the media hype. All that has happened IMHO is that the government has given them backing and approval by providing the rental companies with signs that designate what parking is theirs and what parking is public. Oh, they have also painted the rental parking spaces yellow if I remember correctly. A big waste of scarce public parking I think.

Next the powers that be will painting the curb on the opposite side of the street yellow and putting up signs saying this is tuk-tuk only parking I fear.

As in the news today, the government is proposing maximum fares for tuk-tuks. As an example they say it is okay to charge the 200 baht they already charge for travel within Patong. Rip off!

The point I was trying to make is it seems like in many of these controversial issues the government makes media announcements saying that they are doing something about a problem but in reality change nothing, just making it officially okay to go on business as usual.

Sorry for straying off the topic a bit.

[KarenBravo]

Yes, basically legitimizing the prices they already charge.

The worst thing, is that they actually think nobody will work this out. An insult to our intelligence.

[snamos]

easy...just put parking meters there. Charge 5 baht an hour.....and big (commission based) fines for not using the meters,

Khun Somchai laying in his hammock in the back of his tuk tuk (picking his nose also) will have to find some other place to go and annoy people with the moronic ranting of "tuk tuk". Worst case scenario no one uses the meters and there is a nice clear road down there and people can enjoy the view from the restaurants, and traffic can flow freely

Edited January 28, 2011 by snamos

[KarenBravo]

easy...just put parking meters there. Charge 5 baht an hour.....and big (commission based) fines for not using the meters,

Khun Somchai laying in his hammock in the back of his tuk tuk will have to find some other place to go and annoy people with the moronic ranting of "tuk tuk". Worst case scenario no one uses the meters and there is a nice clear road down there and people can enjoy the view from the restaurants, and traffic can flow freely

Really? You think that would work?

What if the tuk-tuks still parked and refused to pay? All of them.

You think the BiB would do anything?

[snamos]

Really? You think that would work?

What if the tuk-tuks still parked and refused to pay? All of them.

You think the BiB would do anything?

Make the fine the same as motorbike helmet violations.....500 baht and let some hungry low season cops out on the street and watch the results...id be happy to pay to use a meter to rid the place of them.....even though jung ceylon is free parking

[Pakaty]

Parking meters ha! Back to the real world of Thailand. They use cheap labor for that sort of thing. Like at Loma Park where they have that one guy that for years has been collecting money from whoever he deems should have to pay to park. Selective enforcement and rates Thailand style.

Does anyone know why it is only at that one spot near the stage at Loma Park that some of us have to pay?

[merijn]

The rentals and the Tuk Tuk's are at the beach and will never leave.

Whatever they decide to do, after a few months it is back to normal again.

Like with everything else, if something is illegal they find a way to make it legal and for the government the problem is solved.

Only one party is laughing and that are the rental guys on the beach road.

[Ashmanator]

If they really wanted to improve the whole beachfront area, then they could make the whole beach road area pedestrian only. That would improve the whole area ten fold. Build a ring road, manage the traffic better on remaining roads etc etc. It's all been said before, and will not change this decade!!!

[BillR]

The Sims: Phuket. That would make for a great video game.

Edited January 29, 2011 by BillR

[LivinLOS]

Tuktuks pay 30k each a month for the right to act as they please..

Pian and Co (his Son) have 600 tuktuks in the group.. Thats 18 million baht per month in that one aspect alone !! Plus 1000 'taxis' which pay an unknown amount and a further payment from the yellow non affiliated tuktuks (one I know says he has to pay 10k a month but he cannot stop anywhere, he has to keep driving around the circuit beeping)..

So that much monthly graft spreads enough around to buy the total and complete flouting aof any and all laws and rules.. It also makes a system where Pian wants MORE tuktuks, but as they have way to many for the market they have to keep driving the prices higher so that only a few rides per day can make a living.

Everyone who rides a tuktuk puts that money into his pocket.

[Chalongian]

Tuktuks pay 30k each a month for the right to act as they please..

Pian and Co (his Son) have 600 tuktuks in the group.. Thats 18 million baht per month in that one aspect alone !! Plus 1000 'taxis' which pay an unknown amount and a further payment from the yellow non affiliated tuktuks (one I know says he has to pay 10k a month but he cannot stop anywhere, he has to keep driving around the circuit beeping)..

So that much monthly graft spreads enough around to buy the total and complete flouting aof any and all laws and rules.. It also makes a system where Pian wants MORE tuktuks, but as they have way to many for the market they have to keep driving the prices higher so that only a few rides per day can make a living.

Everyone who rides a tuktuk puts that money into his pocket.

30k each per month? I doubt it. Where did you get this information from? As far as I can see half of them don't even get a job every day.

[LivinginKata]

30k each per month? I doubt it. Where did you get this information from? As far as I can see half of them don't even get a job every day.

It's well known that most Tuk Tuks are owned by a small number of prominent Phuket families and they are rented out to the drivers. The 30K month sounds about correct to me.. That means that each driver must get 2 x 500 baht fares every day to break even, the third + fares are the driver's profit. They all get jobs every day, else they would not survive.

[HDRIDER]

Tuktuks pay 30k each a month for the right to act as they please..

Pian and Co (his Son) have 600 tuktuks in the group.. Thats 18 million baht per month in that one aspect alone !! Plus 1000 'taxis' which pay an unknown amount and a further payment from the yellow non affiliated tuktuks (one I know says he has to pay 10k a month but he cannot stop anywhere, he has to keep driving around the circuit beeping)..

So that much monthly graft spreads enough around to buy the total and complete flouting aof any and all laws and rules.. It also makes a system where Pian wants MORE tuktuks, but as they have way to many for the market they have to keep driving the prices higher so that only a few rides per day can make a living.

Everyone who rides a tuktuk puts that money into his pocket.

30k each per month? I doubt it. Where did you get this information from? As far as I can see half of them don't even get a job every day.

It say on another website about the 30K

[katabeachbum]

30k each per month? I doubt it. Where did you get this information from? As far as I can see half of them don't even get a job every day.

It's well known that most Tuk Tuks are owned by a small number of prominent Phuket families and they are rented out to the drivers. The 30K month sounds about correct to me.. That means that each driver must get 2 x 500 baht fares every day to break even, the third + fares are the driver's profit. They all get jobs every day, else they would not survive.

30k is highseason price to rent a tuk tuk from the co op, as I recall low season is half. The co op owns approx 80% of all tuk tuks in Phuket, large yellow reg plates. privately owned tuk tuks have Tabien leck, small yellow reg plates starting with 2 letters.

most taxis outside hotels have to pay like 10k baht a month to the hotel to recieve customers from them. everyone complains about the prices, but the hotels are pushing the prices

the taxi and tuk tuk parking clean up seems to work in Rat u tit 200 pi road. roadside parking available and only a few tuk tuks visible, the rest on call behind Jungceylon. Cant speak for the beach road