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Street Vendors Return to Streets Amid City Effort

Since 2017, the City Administration has been futilely trying to push the street trade into designated and regulated marketplaces. But as many of the marketplaces provided by the government lack customers, streams of vendors are returning to their old ways, writes YOSEPH MERGU, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.

October 19 , 2019
By YOSEPH MERGU ( FORTUNE STAFF WRITER )

Street vendors, dominating the sidewalk of Eden Street, Piassa, sell their products in an area meant for pedestrians and inconvenience drivers.

Street Vendors Return to Streets Amid City Effort

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