She also spoke about tackling businesses occupying public car parking spaces, particularly along the beach road.
These include motorbike taxis, car and bike rental businesses and black taxis operating from public parking.
The responsibility for clearing these businesses off public parking lies with Kathu Police, she said.
Accompanied by Territorial Defence Volunteers and police, she also talked with local long-tail boat operators, whose boats were parked on sand.
They assured her that this was purely temporary; that they were keeping their boats safe from the bad weather and as soon as the weather improved they would put them back in the water.
Now that most of the entrepreneurs have been cleared off the beach, she added, the focus will turn to transportation services on Rat U-Thit 200 Pi Rd “soon”.
A meeting will be held in the coming days to discuss the reorganisation of transport services in the town.
A month ago Mayor Chalermluk proposed reorganising the tuk-tuks and taxis into a hop-on hop-off public transport system, with the vehicles being parked away from town and called in when needed or when it is their turn, in a system similar to the popular “baht buses” in Pattaya or Chiang Mai’s rot daeng (red trucks).