You shall not pass: Election posters are making Bangkok even less walkable

Bangkok’s gubernatorial race took off just days ago, and today its roads and alleys are already jammed with those ubiquitous signs of electioneering – so many in fact they are blocking pedestrians.

In one incident that went viral online over the weekend, an unidentified woman in a wheelchair and a man pushing her were forced to ditch the footpath and travel in the street due to candidate posters blocking the way. 

Footage The incident garnered criticism towards some candidate posters which become hurdles on walkways. 

Footage first posted to TikTok, where it has been watched 200,000 times since yesterday, shows the man carefully lower the woman, who appears to be recovering from a broken leg, into the road after traffic passes.

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