A few weeks back the Sunday Bangkok Post carried an article about protests in Thailand, and it quoted the relevant laws relating to blocking the Road and the Side Walks. I forgot to save it.

Can anyone quote me the relevant Statutes and, if possible the section numbers?

I am pissed off with street vendors who have recently started blocking the side walks of the High Street in my local town, forcing people to walk in the road to get round them.

I want to complain to the local Tessabahn office, and would like to be able to quote the relevant statutes.

Thanks

Talliban office?? Explain that to someone who lives in Bangkok please.

Why don't you just walk all over their rubbish products and when they complain, ask them if they have a license?

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They set up food vendor carts and set up mdse. displays on the sidewalks in every city,town and village I have ever been in, and also park cars and pickups,motorcycles on the roadways all over the country,I didn't think there was a law against it and even if there was,they wouldn't enforce it anyway.

Just today I discovered that many of these vendors who set up on the sidewalks (footpaths in Ozzie language) actually pay a monthly fee to the men in brown !!

The mother of our office cleaner has a som tam stall and it costs her 2,000 baht a month to the men in brown as opposed to say 3,000 baht to rent a small space somewhere......or more if its a shopfront or whatever.

there may be a statute governing street stalls but the men in brown are a law in themselves........albeit a financially healthy law.

The group that supervises street vendors is not the police, but the Tessakit (Metropolitan Authority). It is normal for them to collect a monthly "cleaning fee" from vendors, because they really do create a lot of mess. Sometimes, electricity is also being provided to light up their stalls at night.

The Taksin government is currently warning that it will start getting strict on vendors that block sidewalks or set up within a certain distance from bus stops, etc.

But the Thai's have their own way. Don't expect that you as an outsider (or even a Thai) will get the time of day because a Thai person making a living happens to be blocking your way. That is one of the charms of life in Thailand, so if you can't endure it, I suggest you look for greener pastures.