Nearly 8,000 Pattaya-area motorbikes registered, but enforcement of rules lacking

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Nearly 8,000 Pattaya-area motorbikes registered, but enforcement of rules lacking

PATTAYA:--Pattaya-area officials trying to overhaul the city’s motorcycle-taxi industry say they have registered 761 taxi stands serving 7,950 riders in Pattaya, Banglamung, Nongprue and Huay Yai.

Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho said soldiers, police and municipal officers were divided into three groups to investigate the jurisdictional areas under the responsibility of Pattaya, Banglamung, Nongprue and Huey Yai police stations.

The National Council for Peace and Order - which almost immediately after seizing power in the May 22 coup shook up Bangkok’s motorbike-taxi sector - on July 15 ordered Pattaya officials to do the same. The plan is to register all the drivers, provide them numbered vests and enforce legal fares set by the Chonburi Transport Department.

Officials from five agencies said Oct. 2 they had surveyed the entire region, finding 925 motorbike-taxi stands and 11,127 riders. The next step was to register the riders and hand out new official vests.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-11-28