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Posted: 02 Jan 2010 | 9:17 am

The growing conflict over illegal taxi's and tuk-tuks is seeing action taken by a group for residents and tourists who have called on the Phuket Governor to ban tuk-tuk's. Currently in circulation on the web is a petition which can be viewed at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tuk-tuk

Currently at the time of writing there are 238 people who have signed the initiative.

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hope so bill, lot more problems posted yesterday in the gazette,lets hope poeple power starts working and start signing this petition.ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS, this to me is the only way forward also send copies to the pm, as the directive for this to work has.

to come from bkk,

if we start now maybe something can be done soon. there are many options to this problem that can only be solved by the goveror convening with, all the parties involved. lets get involved.

JOHN DEVENPORT, 07 Jan 2010 | 4:03 pm

Tuk tuk's simply need to be controlled, not removed, they MUST be metered and NOT allow to simply take over parking on every street corner that are NOT reserved by the local government, it is simply unacceptable to allow this lawlessness in such a beautiful community to continue. Why would Phuket allow their beautiful island to be held hostage by a few hundred people
Bill Barnett responds:
Looks like this issue is getting larger so hopefully there will be action.

Nick Otter, 07 Jan 2010 | 11:07 am

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