Motorists to pay fees for parking on Beach Road.

[papa_soda]

Motorists and motorcycle riders parking their vehicles along Beach Road will in future have to use designated areas and they will be charged a parking fee, following complaints from tourists and residents about the problems of parking along the seafront.

The decision follows a survey undertaken on April 2 by Pattaya City permanent secretary Sittiprap Muangkoom, acting on behalf of the mayoral office until the elections for a new mayor have taken place.

Sittiprap, along with administration department heads, police officers, and officials from the Pattaya Sanitation and Environment Department walked from the Dusit Thani hotel to Walking Street to survey at first hand the parking problems along the seafront.

Many complaints had been received from tourists and from the general public, mostly through the city’s website and the Pattaya Call Center, regarding the use by motorists and business owners of Beach Road as their private parking lot, and the proliferation of car hire vendors.

Such is the volume of cars and car hire vehicles parked along the road, usually for long periods of time, that tourists have nowhere to park when they visit the beach.

The survey team saw for themselves how the unruly parking added to the traffic congestion, and they rebuked vendors who had blocked off what they considered to be their own private parking places with wooden poles, stools and other objects.

Sittiprap said that in future, officials would collect parking fees from anyone parking along Beach Road. Parking areas would be marked with painted lines, and cars, motorcycles, baht buses and taxis will all have to pay to use these areas. The fee for the first hour for vehicles will be 10 baht, rising to 20 baht for each extra hour. For motorcycles the fee would be 10 baht for the first hour and 10 baht for each additional hour.

The police have been asked to strictly enforce the parking regulations and fines will be imposed for anyone disregarding the law.

 

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[biggles]

I dont know how true it is, but an old timer in patts told me that they tried this several years ago. the bike/car rental people and the shop keepers made it so difficult for the parking people (threats etc) that the scheme was abandoned. anyone know if this is true or just a 'legend'?

[KhunKen]

I dont know how true it is, but an old timer in patts told me that they tried this several years ago. the bike/car rental people and the shop keepers made it so difficult for the parking people (threats etc) that the scheme was abandoned. anyone know if this is true or just a 'legend'?

 

Not sure if true or not, but it probably is.

 

Another brain fart from City Hall. They can't enforce the laws they have now. If this comes true it will be another waste of time and manpower.

 

If they want control, put in parking meters and kick the car and bike rental agencies off Beach Rd.

[bottleymike]

Were it to be actually implemented, and properly enforced then it would benefit both traffic flow and sensible street parking.

But the chances of that happening are almost nil.

No doubt the BIB will use it to collect Tea money from farrangs as a variation to their other charity collections. But other than that forget it.

The motor cycle and car rental guys as well as street vendors and shops will continueto block off what they consider to be their own pich's on the road side.

Previously, tour buses unloading herds of Hong Kong Chinese and Korean tourists onto boats for the Islands were banished from the beach road, as their double parking blocked traffic flow, and sent to Bali hi pier. But over time, through lack of policing they came back to block the beach road again.