Members of the Walking
Street committee meet at city hall to ask the city to help straighten
out parking problems, vendors and transvestite pickpockets.
Urasin Khantaraphan
Walking Street’s new community president is targeting drivers and street
vendors clogging up the nightlife district’s side streets.
At a May 15 community meeting with Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh,
recently elected Methkrit Suntros requested the city install “no
parking” signs to better explain Waking Street’s alternate-side parking
rules and better patrol sois 14-16 to prohibit illegal and double
parking, which slows traffic and blocks access by emergency vehicles.
Methkrit said such problems have been chronic and city hall’s failure to
enact concrete guidelines and enforce traffic laws has continually
irritated business owners.
The community president also demanded that the city better patrol their
much-touted “safety zone” with actual police officers - rather than
volunteers - so that transvestite pickpockets stop victimizing tourists.
The deputy mayor pledged to have parking signs installed immediately and
said he’d communicate other concerns back to relevant officers at city
hall.
