Khun Sakchai Teangho the deputy Mayor of Pattaya took the drivers seat at a Pattaya City Hall meeting room to chair yet another meeting to hear progress on the matter of motorcycle taxi drivers registrations. The last meeting was convened to hear progress on the motorcycle taxi drivers registrations which at that time was in progress. This meeting was held at the end of the period for compulsory registration of Pattaya motorcycle taxi drivers.
11,267 people had registered as Pattaya motorcycle taxi drivers in the four different areas designated in the district as being motorcycle taxi driver zones.
The commitee would now schedule another meeting to discuss these figures and consider issuing licences to operate as a motorcycle taxi driver in the zone that they had been registered. Then they would issue vests to the motorcycle taxi drivers which used to be the role of the mafia that controlled the motorcycle taxi drivers. Another duty of the motorcycle taxi driver mafia was to set and enforce minimum fares for different journies according to the length of the journey, the time of the evening, whether it was raining or not, the length of the ladies skirts and the nationality of the person requesting transportation i.e Thai or Farang.
Pattaya City Hall are keen to set their own requirements on minimum fares to be fare to the riders and passengers which seems fair enough as long as farangs get a fair crack whether the weather is fair or foul.
