I'm trying to document how ordinary people invented their own

transit system, instant markets, food deliveries services, and housing arrangement  in a rather hostile environment created by the ruling elites and the oligarchs in Thailand.

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But a more interesting question is the story of how these various types of transit got started in the first place. How are they made?

Who designed them? Who used them? Any blueprint or written plans?

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A retired CEO of a multinational corporation admits, “I surprised the board members by arriving 1 hour earlier than their limousines by using the canal boat. Or perhaps it's my unique odor from the rotten canal that surprised them.”

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The iconic orange-vested motorcycle taxis speeding between lanes like the BRT is actually the largest transit system in Bangkok -- with over 4 million passengers per day.

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“For a moment, I was literally airborne!” laughs a young American filmmaker after his motorcycle collided with a large pothole.

 

“Thanks to physics, I landed right back in my seat and not in the street.”

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As night falls, crowds of street carts carrying folding market stalls converged at Pat Pong night market. Within 30 minutes after they’ve arrived, the steel skeleton of the entire night market emerged. An hour later, they were hung with merchandise, fast food, souvenirs, and ‘toys’. Thousands of hungry visitors and Go-Go dancers stopped, shopped, eat and argued under the stars. The feast went on throughout the night as another type of city emerged out of simple modular street carts.

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Morning came, and the dancers counted their money and the street sellers packed their bags.

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“Nothing last,” shrugged a bootlegged DVD seller. 

 

Transient and impermanent as they may seem, these transit enabled millions of people to have access to things they might not otherwise have access to in the absence of a legitimate government.

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