Thread: Desperate City Hall Doubles Fines for Undeterred Sidewalk Motorists

Jintamas Saksornchai
Khao Sod English

BANGKOK — City Hall on Thursday said the number of motorcycle jockeys on sidewalks is almost unchanged even after more than 3 million baht in fines were collected from them in the past three months.


While admitting that setting up more checkpoints across Bangkok failed to clear motorcyclists from sidewalks, Deputy Gov. Sakoltee Phattiyakul said the minimum fine had recently been increased from 500 baht to 1,000 baht, hoping it would discourage further violations of the law.


Read: Sidewalk Moto Jockeys Fined 1.65M Baht: City Hall


Since July, authorities in more than 230 checkpoints busted 8,000 riders on sidewalks, with 5,000 being fined and the rest let off with warnings, according to Sakoltee.


MORE. Desperate City Hall Doubles Fine for Undeterred Sidewalk Motorists

Originally Posted by misskit

the rest let off with warnings,

Well, there you go. Soft touch. And you wonder why they keep doing it.

a quite profitable revenue increase, an extra THB 1M per month, hmm... perhaps they'll hire some more cops

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Some arresting kerb crawlers pulled off and released

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Well, there you go. Soft touch. And you wonder why they keep doing it.

and 5,000 sidewalk jockeys fined,BUT did they PAY THE FINE.?

Easy solution, yellow card then impound mosai and make owner crawl through hell to get it back.

Nah, they'll never think of it.

Make it impossible for motorcyclist to get onto the pavement, elevate them all one metre above the road problem solved!