Parking enforcement improves South Road traffic, but likely won’t last long

[Rimmer]

Parking enforcement improves South Road traffic, but likely won’t last long

Police are again enforcing parking restrictions on South Road, more than two years after regulations were enacted and quickly forgotten.

Part of a 90-day crackdown on traffic scofflaws, the enforcement of alternate-side parking on the crowded street has noticeably - and predictably - improved traffic congestion, as well as netted traffic police extra revenue from the approximately 40 tickets written a day.

Under the rules, first enacted in 2011 to combat South Road’s quicksand-like traffic, parking is allowed on alternate sides of the street on odd and even days. Violators have their wheels locked until they pay 700 baht to the police station. Furthermore, police only allow the left-turn traffic off Soi Buakaow which also helped improve evening traffic flow considerably.

Traffic cops in Oct. received 50 wheel locks plus 300 traffic cones and 150 metal fences to regulate traffic from Pattaya City Hall.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/parking-enforcement-improves-south-road-traffic-but-likely-won-t-last-long-33167#sthash.QcGqQwqF.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2013-12-20

[Basil B]

There is only one way to enforce parking in Pattaya...

[Pattaya28]

For entertainment I might go see the reactions of the vehicle owners as they find their wheels locked. Serves them right !!

[Tokay]

I'd love to see random DAILY drug and booze tests for baht bus and motobike taxi drivers.

[jacko45k]

I might suggest double parking (particularly on Klang) and no right turns into Foodland too but hey, who is in a hurry?

[cup-O-coffee]

Yes! It likely won't last long.

That officer's buttons are about to burst away at muzzle velocity.