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Street resistance: Vendors say new sidewalk rules hurt business
By Coconuts Bangkok

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BANGKOK: -- Contrary to official reports, vendors are resisting orders to clear the streets and make way for pedestrians.

On a field trip with a city official to check out street stalls between sois Ramkhamhaeng 17 and 65, members of the media saw many not complying with orders to operate only at night.

Intended as a dog-and-pony show to show the success of the new street rules, the tour found a small portion street vendors have followed the new rules. Only 30 of 207, admitted tour leader Wanlop Suwandee, chief adviser to the Bangkok governor’s office.

Visits were also made to stretches of Sukhumvit Road and areas in Khlong Toey and Watthana districts, where Wanlop claimed more vendors are following the request to only operate from 7pm to midnight. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/08/22/street-resistance-vendors-say-new-sidewalk-rules-hurt-business

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-08-22

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simple, pull them down and cart them all off. They dont own the sidewalks but expect everyone to dodge all their sh*t, time for the police/govt to get tough and enforce the rules for once. This is why nothing ever gets done here, everyone knows no one will enforce the rules, as soon as they do people will realize they cannot simply do as they please. Send in the troops/police and just start removing them, any that refuse, lock them up or issue big fines.

As much as I like the markets, the fact that they roof them so low you have to walk through them bent over or you keep hitting your head or you simply have to walk down the road and dodge cars/bikes to avoid the crush is simply bullsh*t, of a night it is fine but during the day they are just too much.

Or make a nice fee for using the sidewalks. So for all the hassle some funds come in.

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'...Vendors say: new sidewalks rules hurt business'; These are sidewalks, for people to safely walk on, mai kodjai kap? These are no commercial surfaces you can rent (and you knew that, or why would you have let maffia, police, city officials, blackmail you, hmm), mai kodjai kap? These are no 'new rules', that's just how it should always have remained, mai kodjai kap? And most probably your business activity is illegal too (selling copies of about everything with a brand on, plus child porn, fake medications, etc.), mai kodjai kap? So, 'hurt your business'? Mai pen rai, pai, pai, pai, LEO! RTP, BMA, start to do your job, at last, the corruption candy store is closed, forever, period. Wouldn't it be nice? But, will it be...?

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I am conflicted with this matter. On the one hand they really do need to make a living, but on the other I am fed up with having to walk on the road if I am to get anywhere. The little space left on the footpaths renders them useless for pedestrians.

What alternatives are there for making a living? They are not going to work for factory wages.

I suppose they are too good to work for factory wages, you know; the the people who really have to work to produce all the crap that vendors sell so that tourists that waddle down the path of Thai hawkers can live their Thai experience.

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The trouble with the new rules, there are at least 2 shifts of vendors, morning and night. It is interesting watching the shift change as the vendors move out and the next shift moves in. Good luck with getting rid of one shift.

As to what is sold and their pygmy sized tent that are a hazard for anyone over 1.5 metres tall, that could be addressed with side-walk access. Well I can live in hope.

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I do not see the Junta making jobs , I do see them killing off a lot of jobs......

Most of the people you see are just workers , the bosses own the stuff and pay off the cops to use the street ,

if the Junta wants to start something than go after who is charging the vendors for the sidewalk space , I doubt any of that is going to the city ,

then put signs up saying walk single file , maybe like the airport , one lane to walk and one for baby carriages , stopping to buy anything or even look, etc

I can stand most of the shops , but I buy very little from the ones around Sukhumvit .....

And then we can kill off the Africian street bars...... who is in charge of those and how full are their pockets !

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