Greedy police profit from chaos on Sukhumvit 11?

There must be someone making a fortune from allowing all the vendors, on-the-fly beer bars and others to operate in the soi.

Nobody minds if part of the footpath is used for small-scale vendors like those with pushcarts, but in this area, the open-air bars are extending onto a full lane of the road. Why does Bangkok need re-modelled mini-vans to take up road space to sell their alcohol, at exorbitant prices too? Do they even have a licence to sell alcohol? Or the open-air “restaurants” taking up all the space of the footpath and also one lane of the road? 

As a result, people walking along the soi have to use the road to get past, so any traffic can only proceed at walking speed. Add to that the taxis prowling along the soi, looking for customers and the chaos is perfect, every single day. This mess also extends out to Sukhumvit Road, where cars can’t enter Soi 11 and create a traffic jam on the main road.

So I really would like to know, which person in uniform is making a profit from creating all this trouble? And how much is he earning each week by giving us such a hard time? And how do you spell greed?

Sam Munich