The plan is to ask vendors currently operating stalls at locations on nearby streets such as Anawrahta and Botahtaung Pagoda to shift to the new market. The reasons for this centralisation of the market stalls are twofold.
The first reason is to help traffic flow more smoothly on roads where the vendors’ stalls are currently located. The second is to provide an added attraction for domestic and international tourists visiting the former national capital of Myanmar.
Yangon council launched a similar market on Strand Road last November with the stated aim of wiping out congestion on major thoroughfares in the city centre. Although these markets are staged in the evening, Myanmar and most other Southeast Asian countries call them night markets.
The government of Myanmar designated Naypyidaw as the new capital of the nation in 2005. Despite this, Yangon is the still the hub of the country’s transport network. 12GO ASIA sells tickets from Bangkok and Chiang Mai to Yangon plus onward domestic tickets to the likes of Mandalay, Naypyidaw and Bagan.
Yangon authorities to set up new night market location
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Yangon’s council has announced that a new downtown evening market zone is being set up to help ease the city’s traffic woes. The new market will be on 52nd Street and the council is hoping to attract 130 stallholders.