Khlong Lot vendors warned on new hours

At Khlong Lot, where vendors used to sell goods day and night, city governor’s adviser Wichai Sangprapai and law-enforcement officials inspected the area’s readiness while representatives of vendors also presented the team with flowers to welcome the new rule.
He warned that vendors who sell goods outside these hours would be punished, and urged them to also keep the area clean and well organised, so it can be a model for other areas.
To make way for street cleaning, the BMA is also considering implementing a measure to ban the sale of goods on Mondays in areas where the law was relaxed to allow street hawking, he said.
Under this move, vendors are required not to sell within 10 metres of bus stops or five metres from pedestrian overpasses.
They must also not block a pedestrian crossing or the doors of a phone booth, and stalls must not block pedestrians’ space on footpaths.