Pavement trading on Sukhumvit road and Klong Thom Saturday night market will be curbed

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Pavement trading on Sukhumvit road and Klong Thom Saturday night market will be curbed



BANGKOK: -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has planned to reorganize the Saturday night market at Klong Thom, Worachak and Central Hospital areas and to curb retail trading on the footpaths of Sukhumvit road.

The reorganization of pavement trading on the Luang, Charoeng Krung, Sua Pa, Worachak, Yommaraj, Chao Kamrop and Plabplachai roads is in response to public complaints that the vendors have occupied the pavements and spilled on the roads making it almost impossible for road traffic on Saturday night until the next morning, said Bangkok deputy governor Aswin Kwanmuang on Wednesday.

The Saturday night market starts at 4 pm and ends at 6 pm of Sunday.

The deputy governor pointed out that the disorderly trading has caused inconveniences to people travelling to the Central Hospital and to the services of ambulances getting into or leaving the hospital.

Pomprab district office and Plabplachai police station have been designated to seek cooperation with the vendors to keep their trading activities in a way which will cause least impacts on road traffic.

As for pavement trading on Sukhumvit Road, he said that trading can start at 7 pm and only on specified areas set by the City Hall.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pavement-trading-sukhumvit-road-klong-thom-saturday-night-market-will-curbed


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[Suriya4]

No street vendors allowed in the street market. Must be world first. Welcome to Amazing thailand.

[borisloosebrain]

Sukhumvit is only good if it has it's vendors. Why else would you walk along such a boring road, especially in the afternoon heat. The BMA are a weird mob.

[Bkungbank]

Suk 11 tourist force to walk on road wihich very dangerous, noting have been done as vendor of food stalls occoupied al the street like thier own, never consider safety of others.

[alfalfa19]

It would be nice to see some of the sukumvit street vendors off the sidewalks. It's a nightmare there for pedestrians.

[Lupatria]

As for pavement trading occupation on Sukhumvit Road, he said that trading can start at 7 pm

[BKKdreaming]

Klong Thom area has heavy traffic everyday , not just the weekends

Plus they have blocked many streets with permanent big tents

And digging up the street for the MRT extension ( is that the real reason for the crackdown ? )

[HerbalEd]

Sukhumvit is only good if it has it's vendors. Why else would you walk along such a boring road, especially in the afternoon heat. The BMA are a weird mob.

As someone who's been living on Soi 10 for 12 years, I sure as hell won't miss them.

[F4UCorsair]

It would be nice to see some of the sukumvit street vendors off the sidewalks. It's a nightmare there for pedestrians.

It's started and I'd prefer the stalls to be there much earlier than 7.00 pm, even all day.

What do you do if you need a hundred Viagra tablets at 5.00 pm? Pay a pharmacy B 1500 when you can buy on street B200??

[kennw]

It would be nice to see some of the sukumvit street vendors off the sidewalks. It's a nightmare there for pedestrians.

It's started and I'd prefer the stalls to be there much earlier than 7.00 pm, even all day.

What do you do if you need a hundred Viagra tablets at 5.00 pm? Pay a pharmacy B 1500 when you can buy on street B200??

Maybe you should buy the real ones, not the fakes from China they sell on the street stalls

[tw25rw]

It would be nice to see some of the sukumvit street vendors off the sidewalks. It's a nightmare there for pedestrians.

It's started and I'd prefer the stalls to be there much earlier than 7.00 pm, even all day.

What do you do if you need a hundred Viagra tablets at 5.00 pm? Pay a pharmacy B 1500 when you can buy on street B200??

Pretty much guaranteed to be fake. But even if it was real, do you think the best way to store medicine is to keep it in the sun all day?

[djhotsox]

It would be nice to see some of the sukumvit street vendors off the sidewalks. It's a nightmare there for pedestrians.

It's started and I'd prefer the stalls to be there much earlier than 7.00 pm, even all day.

What do you do if you need a hundred Viagra tablets at 5.00 pm? Pay a pharmacy B 1500 when you can buy on street B200??

Buy Sidegra from a Pharmacy for 190 baht/box 4x100mg....the Thai Governments attempt to get rid of all copy Viagra was to produce this legitimate stuff...Sidegra....(and no you don't need a prescription, most pharmacies will sell it to you anyways). I'm surprised more people do not know of this???

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

There's nothing new about the 7 pm start time for sidewalk vendors along lower Sukhumvit. It's a change in policy that's been enforced by the BMA and local police for the past few months now.

And somewhat surprisingly, for the most part, at least in lower Sukhumvit, most of the street vendors have remained clear until 7 pm each day or close to it. Many thought the change would be like past pronouncements, here for a few weeks and then gradually ignored. But that hasn't happened with the 7 pm start time, at least not yet after a few months.

What it means, of course, is that you can up until dinner time actually walk down the sidewalk on either side of Suk Road in the Asoke/Nana area without having to fight your way between inner and outer rows of vendors' tables with only a very narrow passage sometimes only wide enough for pedestrians to walk single file, even though the actual sidewalk area is often three meters wide or more.

[maidee]

they force you to move in a weird kind of tunnel with "shops" on both sides of the pavement

ideal for pick pockets to hide & find new targets

[Sviss Geez]

Sukhumvit is only good if it has it's vendors. Why else would you walk along such a boring road, especially in the afternoon heat. The BMA are a weird mob.

To get from one place to another perhaps? Not everyone's there for the vendors.

[thaipod]

The Klong Thom area in China Town is a hell hole. They need to clean this place up, you have markets, hundreds of people, pickups and motocycles all in one place and one of the worst places for pick pocket thieves.

Bravo for the Silom and Sukhumvit being cleared and control. But for how long?

Edited November 29, 2014 by thaipod

[HooHaa]

Suk 11 tourist force to walk on road wihich very dangerous, noting have been done as vendor of food stalls occoupied al the street like thier own, never consider safety of others.

thankfully you are correct, nothing has been done about food vendors, but the vw van bars have been completely eradicated meaning traffic once again moves at night.

that was the only danger on 11.

what do you people want from bangkok, singapore?

i have lived on 11 since around 1999, and i love it. unless you are stumbling around pissed it is not that hectic at all,

i have been away for most of the past six months, living on at the beach and working in manila and i can tell you categorically that 11 has improved in that time, lets not sterilize it completely.

[impulse]

Sukhumvit is only good if it has it's vendors. Why else would you walk along such a boring road, especially in the afternoon heat. The BMA are a weird mob.

As someone who's been living on Soi 10 for 12 years, I sure as hell won't miss them.

And that's the issue. They're not there for us. They're there for the tourists. I'd be sorely disappointed if I came to BKK and stayed on Suk, expecting a vibrant street market- and found just another boring street.

Yeah, they're a PITA for long stays like us that have already bought all the fake Viagra and DVDs we'll ever buy (zero here, BTW). But they're what make Bangkok, well, Bangkok.

Besides, they were there long before I moved in, so it was my choice to move in among them...

And to Thaipod, I love Khlong Thom in Chinatown- especially on Sunday- the trashiest (and most interesting) day of their week. It's not nearly as trashy as a real Chinese street market- but it has the genuine flavor. You want sanitized and organized? Go to Chatuchuk.

Edited November 29, 2014 by impulse