Hawkers won’t give up previous slots
Street food suppliers have expressed mixed feelings about the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) plan to relocate them to new hawker centres in the capital to higher manage them.
The Bangkok Post recently spoke to some vendors to obtain their perspective at the matter after Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt earlier this month unveiled the BMA’s plan.
Mr Chadchart recently inspected pavements outside Phran Nok Market, one of 31 areas the BMA can be looking to turn into a hawker centre.
During his go to, he said the city needs to set aside places for street suppliers to provide residents with affordable meals.
He stated residents support the particular creation of hawker centres as they would certainly benefit both sellers and customers.
A 36-year-old grilled pork vendor who went by Paweena told the Bangkok Write-up this wounderful woman has been selling the girl products for years plus disagrees with Mister Chadchart’s decision.
She is concerned she will lose her regular customers at nearby offices.
Most are blue-collar workers who like buying her items during afternoon fails and after work, the girl said.
“The authorities can only force the street suppliers to move to arranged areas but they still cannot do that to the regular customers, ” she said.
“There’s no ensure that customers shopping around in the designated area will enjoy my pig the way my normal customers do, inch she said.
The same applies to Mhoo, a 59-year-old pad thai seller.
Apart from facing the same problem surrounding regular clients, Ms Mhoo is usually afraid rent at a new place is going to be unaffordable compared with the one she currently occupies, despite Mr Chadchart’s promise that lease will be affordable in the new place.
“Office employees [regular customers] won’t go to the brand new places set up with regard to street vendors even as we do not know how far aside the centres will be from worksites, ” she said.
“I also provide no idea how inexpensive [rent] will be. All I am aware is the current rent is the cheapest I could find in this neighborhood, ” she stated.
At the same time, two lottery solution and pancake vendors named Wan and Sommai, in their mid-40s, said they would not really willingly comply with the particular authorities as they live in the same area exactly where they hawk their particular wares now. Shifting would not be hassle-free for them.
However , despite their particular disagreement on relocation, some vendors provided alternative solutions to Mister Chadchart so authorities can better handle hawkers.
Ms Mhoo stated instead of moving old street vendors away from their areas, the particular Bangkok governor ought to put new road vendors there, as they do not yet have regular customers, as well as the centres could function them better.
The area the lady currently occupies is teeming with street vendors who have been generally there for a long time, she mentioned.
The particular authorities could instead help rearrange areas for pedestrians and hawkers, she mentioned.