Pratchaya Kerdthong
Lots of people talk about cleaning up Pattaya. For 10
years, Yim Kit-ubosot has actually been doing it.
Yim is one of the city’s three street-sweeping truck
drivers. Six days a week he rides around town, his brushes and vacuums
picking up trash, construction debris and other waste. He says dirt,
sawdust and the like are easiest and he can sweep it up twice as fast as
a person with a broom.
Mondays and Wednesdays Yim sweeps up the beachfront
from north to south. On Tuesdays and Fridays he hits Walking Street. And
on Thursday and Saturday he runs the broom over other areas downtown.
The sweepers are diesel- and gasoline-powered with a dust tank
release system. They are operated by the Public Health and Environment
Department in tourist-centric areas of the city.
