BANGKOK
BMA wants parking fees on 51 more roads
Tanatpong Kongsai
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will soon propose to the Metropolitan Police Bureau the list of 51 additional public roads it hopes to collect parking fees from, said BMA deputy permanent secretary Krisda Klantanon on Thursday.

The issuing of the new regulation came after the BMA targeted annual income of Bt65 billion.

"Parking fees are a major income source for big cities and can also help solve traffic jams. If BMA can do this, its income will increase by Bt10 billion," Krisda said.

BMA Finance Department director Kritsada Siripibul said the city wanted to collect fees at 65 roads but they had to settle on 51 roads under the proposal.

The 14 roads it did not put on the list include Feung Nakhon Road, where the Interior Ministry asked for parking space; Pracharat 2 Road, where the skytrain (blue line) construction is ongoing; and Khao San Road, which Chana Songkhram police use as a pedestrian road.

BMA collected Bt11,788,255 in parking fees in the 2014 fiscal year and Bt10,651,937 for this fiscal year so far (October 2014 until May 2015).

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/BMA-wants-parking-fees-on-51-more-roads-30264149.html


-- The Nation 2015-07-10

they need someone to enforce them too. Somehow they always forget that bit.

they will have parking maids like in those pesky western countries? except here, you can pay directly in cash if the "officer" is nearby

They already have parking fees o every road in Bkk.

Unfortunately the police collect and keep it all for themselves.

on Sukhumvit soi 11 yesterday I saw them painting the curbs red and white (no parking zones) but they were painting them around the taxi's that think they own the streets because the pay the cops to stay there. Too funny and a waste of paint without enforcement.

Logic suggests parking meters - not difficult to calculate how much should be in each one, by the hour - but the operative road is logic.