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Home » Reader question » Reader question: No more stalls on Sukhumvit Road?
Reader question: No more stalls on Sukhumvit Road?
Dear readers,
A colleague of mine who has just returned from Bangkok claims that stalls are no longer set up on Sukhumvit Road in the evenings. You know what I'm talking about? The evening stalls with souvenirs, clothes, perfumes, etc…, say “the night market of Sukhumvit Road” (between soi 1 and soi 15).
Can anyone confirm this, and if so what is the reason for this? I would really find this a loss in terms of atmosphere and making bargains?
It can't be longer than a year ago, because in March last year they were still there every night.
Regards,
Pat
Beats. No longer allowed by the junta. The footpath is for the pedestrians they say. The proliferation of stalls can also be dangerous. This way the fire brigade can no longer get through.
After 7.00pm most of the stalls are already there again.
Although there must be paid to the corrupt police.
Well,
The military government returns the sidewalk to the residents, just like the beach and the nature parks.
That's all, but when the military are "gone" they will come back, after all, the police also have to earn money.
Amazing Thailand
Actually, the junta is right. The footpath is for pedestrians and not for sales stalls, billboards, food stands, parking lot, flower box, workshop, mopeds, etc. Fortunately, the municipality has taken strict action against such use of the footpath and the footpath is now almost empty.
Even the “larger companies” that did pay for the use of the footpath have been dealt with. Now and then they carry out a raid and load up everything that is on the footpath, from tables and chairs, billboards, etc. For now only on the “major roads”, but I think the smaller soi's will follow one day.
Finally rid of those junk stalls that clearly stand in the way in a modern city where a sidewalk is supposed to be a sidewalk? Like to move to some market, if you like that atmosphere.
Dear Pat
More than a year ago, the government returned the sidewalk to the public.
Only the facades are still used where possible.
With greeting
Ben
i was in bangkok last week, and between asok and nana you still have (or again?) just stalls
That's right, last year with songkran they were still there, when I was back in Bangkok in October they had disappeared, only some on the shop side were still there.
On inquiry I was also told for the pedestrian flow.
There was also a police stand where you could fill out a survey form what you thought of it, I did because I liked that market so much.
Moreover, if you are in a hurry you can just walk through on the other side of Sukhumvit because there are hardly any stalls there.
I was there for 3 weeks and the stalls just opened around 6pm as usual.
The night stands that used to be there, especially small bars, and this after midnight have disappeared for a year and a half.
It would be economically efficient if users of the public space simply paid sufferance tax or market money, although there is a tendency to conclude that it now ends up in the wrong pockets.
Thank you for your answers.
The first reactions here contradicted each other, but after a summary of all the answers I know what it is now.
Two more things about that:
1) Returning the footpath to pedestrians seems to me to be a completely implausible argument by Thai standards…!
Then many other interventions will have to be done and then Bangkok will no longer be Bangkok, right?
2) As I said, this can never be longer than 1 year, since I was still there in mid-March 2015 and all the stalls were still there!
“Trop is too much” they say in Belgium, and that also applies to casualness and disorder. Still, I advocate leaving Thailand as Thailand as possible. Preferably not a copy of our neat Western Piet Mondrian structures. Certainly not in a country of free people, where all exaggerated regulations lead to hypocrisy and corruption anyway.
For me, life can still be a bit spontaneous and “unofficial”, where not every place and time has become a reasoned concept and subject to rules and observation.
Long live the junk!
Inventive and enterprising as the Thais are, many sales items are now hung with hooks on grids on available walls or fences.