City Hall rejects Pakklong Talad pavement vendors’ request for another reprieve



BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has turned down a petition of some night vendors at Pakklong Talad market to give them another reprieve to carry on with their business until the end of this year.

Bangkok deputy governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwangmuang told representatives of the night vendors that they must respect the agreement reached earlier between vendors and the City Hall that they must leave the pavements at Pakklong Talad market after June 30 deadline.

A representative of the vendors, Mr Phirom Chidkorn, said that only some of the vendors wanted to stay on until the end of the year because they could not find an alternative place to do their business.

However, he admitted that if the City Hall insisted on enforcing the June 30 deadline to shut down the night market for pavement vendors, the remaining vendors would have no choice but to move out.

As for the defiant vendors, Pol Gen Aswin warned that he would apply strictly en force the law and the violating vendors would face a fine if they refuse to move out.

He said that about 200 municipal police, army personnel and police would be deployed at the market for the next two months to ensure order and to prevent vendors from returning.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/171113-2/


-- Thai PBS 2016-07-05

Then in January another petition for a reprieve until the end of 2017 and so on.

Flower vendors fail to convince BMA for extended stay at Pak Klong Talad



BANGKOK: -- Pak Klong Talad flower vendors yesterday negotiated with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) senior officials for extended stay on footpaths to sell flowers, but were rejected.

After almost two hours of talks between representatives of vendors from the Pak Klong Talad night flower market and Bangkok deputy governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang, the vendors left with disappointment when he insisted that no more extension would be allowed as the deadline had been extended since April.

The deputy governor said the city administration (BMA) has been lenient with the vendors for a long time but now it could no longer allow them to continue doing business on footpaths around the Pak Klong Talad flower market.

The vendors couldn’t keep saying that they wouldn’t have any place to make a living because the BMA has prepared over 10 new locations for them to do their businesses, he said.

He said most vendors have moved next to Wat Liab or Ratchaburana temple to sell their products with the remaining still defying laws.

He said he would like to plead through the media to all vendors that if the city administration did not abide by the rules and laws of society, “how could we ever live peacefully and happily in this country?”

During yesterday’s talks, the vendors cited same excuse, saying rent at the new locations which have been prepared by the BMA, including the Yod Phimarn market and Songserm Kaset Thai market, which are located not too far away from Pak Klong Talad market, are too expensive or about 2,000 baht per square metres a month.

Besides they claimed one new location, the Songserm Karn Kaset market on Soi Suan Pak in Taling Chan district is too far away.

The flower vendors also claimed if they were evicted and could not continue business, the flower farmers would also be greatly affected as vendors here are their wholesale customers.

One negotiator added that they have no other choice but to comply with the laws.

But what they feared most was that Thailand would lose the ranking of being the top 4 top markets in the world.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/flower-vendors-fail-convince-bma-extended-stay-pak-klong-talad/


-- Thai PBS 2016-07-05

This is what the General means by "looking after the poor people"

If the developers don't kill tourism in Bangkok the BMA will.

200 police to stop a flower market...

That flower market was actually very nice and something worth visiting for tourists. The other "markets" just sell crap you can buy all over Bangkok. The problem with these vendors is "give them a hand and they take the whole arm", so they've got themselves to thank for what's happening to them.

This is what the General means by "looking after the poor people"

Nope, this is what he means by "Cleaning up BKK" and make it a better place.

They are free to find another place to start a market there but not in the walkway of normal people who go to work/school.

On a tripadvisor forum , there is a thread going on the government ordering Street vendors to close around Siam and lower Sukhumvit , had a bit of a google , and cant find anything ,

Has anyone heard of this ?

That flower market was actually very nice and something worth visiting for tourists. The other "markets" just sell crap you can buy all over Bangkok. The problem with these vendors is "give them a hand and they take the whole arm", so they've got themselves to thank for what's happening to them.

That's true, they start erecting their stalls along both sides of the pavement leaving very little room for foot traffic for which the pavements are there for anyway.

I have no objection to vendors selling their wares on the sidewalk, they have to make a living some way, but to block most of the pavement and sometimes

force foot traffic on to the road is just not on.

The places where this happens, the police do nothing about it. Oh wait!