Pattaya Motorbike Taxi Drivers Given Final Deadline For Registration

Story by Albert Jack

PATTAYA: Around 1500 Pattaya motorbike taxi drivers have only sixty-days to apply for public transport licenses.

Since 2014 the district has been urging thousands of riders to apply for licences that, among other things, requires them to charge standard fees set by the Chonburi Province.

This has proved to be an impossible rule to enforce and largely ignored by the riders. However, authorities have been able to persuade nearly six-thousand riders to register and they have been issued with the official orange bibs.

But many more rogue drivers remain on the streets and they have now been given just two months to fall in line or face arrest.

Banglamung District Chief Chakorn Kanjawattana has said that no new licenses will be issued after October 1st and that to obtain permits riders must provide fingerprints, allow criminal background checks and be sponsored by either the head of a local taxi stand or two neighborhood drivers. The driver’s motorbike also will be inspected for safety and road-worthiness.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/227548/pattaya-motorbike-taxi-drivers-given-final-deadline-registration/

-- Pattaya One 2016-07-16

Do you need a WP for that, lol

Is that the final ' final ', the nearly to last final or the get around to it sometime final ?

""Pattaya Motorbike Taxi Drivers Given Final Deadline For Registration""

So all over the City of Pattaya 1000's of motorbike taxis are illegal !!

I bet there's a shop that sells fake orange bibs.

I bet there's a shop that sells fake orange bibs.

There must be a few selling brown BiBs

Do you need a WP for that, lol

Yes, in this case it is called a license

"fall in line or face arrest."

The land of the arrest

before issuing dead lines, you must have an enforcement plan

in the absence of which no project is likely to succeed.

suggest an easily identifiable arm badge.

unscrupulous operators may still find a way around it but chances of detection

will be improved.

Thai deadlines can be taken years!!!!!!!

no enforcmen for anything as toooo many earn money for illigal things and often officials and police is involved !

so just calm down as thais have their experiance in that:-))

before issuing dead lines, you must have an enforcement plan

in the absence of which no project is likely to succeed.

suggest an easily identifiable arm badge.

unscrupulous operators may still find a way around it but chances of detection

will be improved.

Identity arm badge or card...

That should boost sales of full face motorbike helmets

Its a fantastic service as is the baht bus service which is possibly the most useful, cheapest transport system in the world. The motosai system already works well so it does not need to much adjustments - just gentle persuasion and a tad standardization.

Topic running here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/931984-final-1385-motorbike-taxi-drivers-given-registration-deadline/