Military orders Naklua retailers to clear sidewalks, streets

[Rimmer]

Military orders Naklua retailers to clear sidewalks, streets

PATTAYA:--Retailers along a stretch of Naklua Road have been told to clear sidewalks and parking space outside their shops after complaints of encroachment on public property.

Municipal authorities backed up by soldiers hit Naklua Road near the Lumpini condominium project office April 7. They found businesses placing chairs, posts and other objects in the street to prohibit parking as well as taking over sidewalks.

Some vendors had expanded their signage and were showcasing their products, making it impossible to walk on the sidewalk.

Officials spoke to business owners, telling them their actions were not only selfish, but illegal, and asked for cooperation in returning the streets and sidewalks to the public.

Retailers, however, fought back, forcing the military to step in. Soldiers told them to obey the law and clear the public property before April 20. They promised to return for another inspection.

No arrests were made now, but vendors who don’t comply by the end of Songkran will face being detained.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-04-17

[NanLaew]

Beach Road next!

The landward side!!

PLEASE!!!???

[craigt3365]

How about the scooter shops that do their repairs right on the sidewalk. What a mess...

[Pdaz]

Round up all the bike for rent stalls too.. Clear the roads for parking spaces

[NoBrainer]

If all of the parking spaces were available for parking, it would help to alleviate traffic congestion, just by eliminating many cars driving around in circles looking for somewhere to park.

Maybe parking should be limited to 4 hours in the daytime as well. You could employ a few dozen people to each work a small area, marking plate numbers and time seen, at the

parking spot, then ticket or clamp overtime parkers.

[wiesner]

we could only hope they do the same to beach road, have tried to park and vendors tell me i cannot. is not their property why doesn't police enforce the laws.

[newnative]

Not a moment too soon but DON'T STOP THERE! On to Pattaya! And, Jomtien! And, when you're done, double back and start all over again because they will all be back in place on the sidewalks and streets.

[tolsti]

That's a bugger...I like eating in two of the little restaurants in that section. Hope they don't have to go as well..

[Benmart]

How about the scooter shops that do their repairs right on the sidewalk. What a mess...

Spot on There is one on the west side of Thrappaya Road, just south of the Third Road overpass as you are heading to Jomtien. They throw their oil and refuse down the storm drain and the entire sidewalk and adjacent area is contaminated with oi and solvents.

The waste and contamination ends up in the bay, which is the "showplace" of Pattaya and Jomtien.

[Watertoy]

Can always create Parking Officer jobs which could be self-funded by those who disobey.....happens in most other countries. May as well create more "not totally necessary jobs" similar to Golf Caddies..

[Pib]

Vendors consider govt property/sidewalks/etc., as space they have a right to use. Well, they think it's their Buddha given right when in fact like the article said they are just being selfish. Basically they have have no concern for impact on the public. Thainess.

[Khun Riki]

Clear the sidewalks and teach indians to use them.

[eastcanje]

This should be done all over Pattaya. Pedestrians can't use the sidewalks, they have to walk in the street.

In addition, the authorities should crack down on all the motor cyclists, not all of whom are Thai, travelling the wrong way on one way roads. I've seen even cars and trucks, pulling out of a driveway, and if they are less than half of the soi away from where they want to go, drive against the right of way!

[phycokiller]

I prefer the venders. they provide shade during the day

[BernieOnTour]

If all of the parking spaces were available for parking, it would help to alleviate traffic congestion, just by eliminating many cars driving around in circles looking for somewhere to park.

Maybe parking should be limited to 4 hours in the daytime as well. You could employ a few dozen people to each work a small area, marking plate numbers and time seen, at the

parking spot, then ticket or clamp overtime parkers.

Not forgetting the huge coach busses parking on Pattaya South, 3rd Rd, Theppraya, Jomtien 2nd Rd.....

However blocking and misusing parking space will never stop - parking like that is not for free in a Pattaya, it is one of the incomes sources of a certain group in Brown.

[Jingthing]

It doesn't surprise at all that such positive actions are taken only when there is military rule in Thailand. Of course military rule forever is not desirable ... so I guess we can assume all back to "normal" later. Right?

[Cake Monster]

This problem is seen on literally every street in Pattaya and the surrounding area.

Thais rent / buy a Townhouse and then set up a business which spills into the streets with signage and tables Etc Etc Etc.

The law is quite specific in that a 3 Mtr sidewalk has to be left clear at all times

It may not seem such a huge problem to many people, but as with all laws, the small ones get broken first by a few, that then encourages more to people to break the law, as the few are not penalised.

After a period of time, more laws are broken, and on it goes to create a totally lawless society, and that is basically where the law in Thailand is today.

[Traveling Sailor]

If all of the parking spaces were available for parking, it would help to alleviate traffic congestion, just by eliminating many cars driving around in circles looking for somewhere to park.

Maybe parking should be limited to 4 hours in the daytime as well. You could employ a few dozen people to each work a small area, marking plate numbers and time seen, at the

parking spot, then ticket or clamp overtime parkers.

Better yet, tow the offending vehicle and make the owner pay a fine plus storage and towing fees in order to get the vehicle back. I'm sure things would get much better, real fast.

[newnative]

Totally agree with all that Cake Monster said. It's a wonder it's not worse than it already is. There needs to be VISIBLE enforcement of all laws with stiff fines--not this 100 baht and 500 baht nonsense. And, it needs to be enforced all the time, not just at special times.

[ToddinChonburi]

How about enforcing all over this province, Motorbikes ,chairs tables, signs this place is a joke.

Edited April 18, 2015 by ToddinChonburi

[jacko45k]

I tend to agree........

Retailers, repair shops, restaurants etc lay claim to the pavements and even out into the road all over the place.

It is a sort of selfish land-grab.

Problem is they have gotten away with it for so long there is a sense of entitlement.

Edited April 18, 2015 by jacko45k

[Bangkok Barry]

If all of the parking spaces were available for parking, it would help to alleviate traffic congestion, just by eliminating many cars driving around in circles looking for somewhere to park.

Maybe parking should be limited to 4 hours in the daytime as well. You could employ a few dozen people to each work a small area, marking plate numbers and time seen, at the

parking spot, then ticket or clamp overtime parkers.

Or Thailand might like to join the 20th century and use parking meters.

[mikebell]

So we have motor bikes for hire taking up road parking space; selfish business owners who prevent parking in front of their premises; coach drivers; I would also like to nominate another group - laundries. They erect metal drying frames near their businesses on the sunny side of the street. I have some sympathy but not when they leave the frames out empty & overnight.

[eastcanje]

So we have motor bikes for hire taking up road parking space; selfish business owners who prevent parking in front of their premises; coach drivers; I would also like to nominate another group - laundries. They erect metal drying frames near their businesses on the sunny side of the street. I have some sympathy but not when they leave the frames out empty & overnight.

Regarding the laundry drying frames, I saw a man walking along a soi, not paying enough attention, and since the drying rack was unused at the time, it did not catch his attention, until it caught the side of his forehead with a sharp rap!

I had a lot of empathy for him, because this is the kind of thing I would do too!

[gk10002000]

Thais just interpret "Sidewalk Vendors" a bit differently than most. Been down Pattaya Thai any late afternoon to evening? Gosh. Sometimes there was little street to be seen as the vendors double, triple parked and spread out!

[NanLaew]

I prefer the venders. they provide shade during the day

You must be what's colloquially know as a short-arse. Those awnings are too low even for most average farangs and some of the Beach Road ones are lowered or extended even more so that they shade the lazy buggers that run these 'stalls' as they laze in their lawn chairs and drape themselves over their motorbikes.

[GiantFan]

Nearly put my eye out many times on those awnings.

[doggie888888]

Gee... There must be someone influential living near there. Of all the places in pattaya, many of which have far worse problems with vendors cluttering the sidewalk, why do they focus on this barely 10m stretch of naklua Road?

[newnative]

Memo to Swiss Geez. I think you totally missed the point of Bangkok Barry's reply. He knows it's the 21st century but what he was saying, with humor, is that things like parking meters have been around for a long time and maybe it's time for Thailand to bravely move forward to the 20th century and embrace some of these newfangled inventions.

[joepattaya1961]

How convenient........ONE day before Songkran in Naklua they're clearing the pavements..........don't the BIK's take a guess that the vendors would leave by themselves?

Edited April 18, 2015 by joepattaya1961