BMA to regulate sidewalk vendors on Asoke-Montri road

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BMA to regulate sidewalk vendors on Asoke-Montri road



BANGKOK: -- Sidewalk vendors along the Asok-Montri road (Sukhumvit 21 or Soi Asok) will face eviction this week if they continue to defy order of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to move out.

The eviction date was earlier set on April 16 after a meeting between BMA officials and 177 sidewalk vendors to regulate sidewalk trade on the road following complaints by pedestrians that vendors have set up stalls and displayed their merchandises on sidewalks obstructing the footpath.

The people complained that they were forced to walk on the traffic lane instead, particularly on sidewalk in front of Srinakharinwirot university Prasarnmit campus (Sukhumvit Soi 23) and the other side where lots of motorcycle taxis occupying the sidewalks.

BMA’s advisory board chairman Wallop Suwandee inspected sidewalk on Sukhumvit 21 and 23 yesterday following the complaints of illegal trade on sidewalks.

The illegal sidewalk trade is reported active mostly on Thursday, causing traffic jams spreading out from Soi Prasarnmit (Sukhumvit 23) and Soi Asok (Sukhumvit 21), to Phetburi and Ratchadapisek, particularly at noon when several thousands of office employees and university students coming out to have lunch and shop.

Dr Wanlop said sidewalk vendors on Asok-Montri road have pledged cooperation to regulate the sidewalk trade.

The BMA has already 28 locations or sidewalk markets in 16 districts of Bangkok under the policy of the military junta to return sidewalks to the people to walk safely as vendors had illegally occupied limited spaces on sidewalks to trade.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bma-to-regulate-sidewalk-vendors-on-asoke-montri-road


-- Thai PBS 2015-04-20

[clockman]

Because all laws in Thailand can be bent! Nobody thinks the law applys to them.

[realenglish1]

The reason Thais think that laws don't apply to them is the result of previous administrations. They would pass laws and then not give them Teeth

Get used to it this is called " Rule of Law"

The west has this concept but it seems that Thais find this a difficult concept to wrap their brains around

[ezzra]

Same story all over Thailand, turn a blind eye for many years, let the problems fester, and get worse

by the day and when it comes to rectify and restore order it's 100 time harder if they were keeping order

from the start.... TIT comes to mind, again and again.....

[tx22cb]

I don't mind the vendors so much - at least they are stationary.

I don't like the motorcycles waiting on the sidewalk - these moving violators are much more dangerous.

[gerry123]

turn a blind eye for many years, let the problems fester similar to the airlines situation now find themselves in

not a side walk issue i know but the cap fits well

Edited April 20, 2015 by gerry123

[jamesjohnsonthird]

BMA to regulate sidewalk vendors?

Let me clue you up. BMA already does regulate these vendors. EVERY vendor pays them.

They are only allowed there if they pay.

I have seen it many times. A vendor that doesn't pay is visited, pronto, by the BMA/Police, a green truck shows up and his stuff is rudely confiscated.

Believe me, all those vendors that are 'refusing' to leave have paid to be there.