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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Parking ban in Patong beach road in next high season

The heavy traffic congestion on the Patong Beach beach road will be eased by a new plan of local government officials: local government officials announced that from next high season no parking will be allowed along this stretch of road.

The ambitious plan seems to target mainly taxis and tuk tuks. Patong Deputy Mayor Chairat Sukkabal explained at a press conference at Phuket Provincial Hall:
"Tuk-tuks and hawkers are currently taking up all the parking spaces along the beach road, leaving tourists with no place to park. We will provide more parking spaces and change traffic regulations to force all cars to park on the new road [the road currently under construction parallel between Nanai Rd and Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, which is expected to be completed before the next high season], away from the beach. Taxis will be allowed on Thaweewong Rd only to drop off passengers.

Local residents call this plan not only ambitious, but maybe overly so (some used much stronger words), because previous measures and plans to prevent taxis from parking illegally have been totally fruitless, as the over 1,000 tuk tuks parking nightly along beach road in the red and white (parking forbidden) zone demonstrate clearly.