BMA warns vendors: keep streets clean or face ban
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Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) spokesperson Tridao Apaiwong yesterday warned that although the city allowed street vendors to sell goods on the footpath every other Monday, it reserved the right to implement the street stall ban every Monday if
Tridao said that, according to Bangkok deputy governor Asawin Kwanmuang’s order to shift from the previous rule, to the current cleaning day on every other Monday, the city assigned district offices to supervise this matter and change the cleaning day schedule as appropriate.
She warned that BMA would inspect all district areas and if vendors failed to keep the areas clean, BMA would use the old regulation again -- which saved Monday as a footpath cleaning day and banned street vendors’ stalls on that day.
Tridao also announced the city had progressed to installing a total of 39 elevators at 12 BTS stations to facilitate physically-challenged persons – from a target of 111 elevators at 34 stations by December 2014.
The city also planned to add another 31 bicycle lanes by the end of this year to its current 31 bicycle lanes covering 200 kilometers. The new route selection will prioritise the safety of bicycle users and people, she added. She said the city would this week consult with the Expressway Authority of Thailand about a plan to build bicycle lanes under the Chaeng Wattana-Ngam Wong Wan Expressway.
