PATONG tuk-tuk drivers staged a mass protest today that is likely to succeed – and reverse the direction of the west coast fun-town’s much-debated and abused one-way system.

With protest signs stuck to tuk-tuks along beach road, about 50 drivers and 30 tuk-tuks blocked traffic around Kathu police station – which oversees Patong – to make their feelings known.

The drivers came prepared with maps to let senior police know they had no time for the recent changes that converted some awkward two-way connecting laneway sois into one-ways.

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