Accessibility Is Freedom and friend visit Siam Paragon and management for the priority parking issue.

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Siam
Paragon
I have been watching the movement of issue of parking lots for PWDs of Siam Paragon for quite a while.
It had already been two years for me to frequently visit there, Siam Paragon Shopping Centre.
And I sometimes took photos or recorded videos of what related to the problems about the parking.
However, I did not have a chance to seriously take matters into my own hands.

Last Friday Khun Tee, one of the members of Accessibility Is Freedom, rang me while I was at Soi Ek-ka-mai.
He briefly explained to me that he was having a problem with finding the parking at Siam Paragon before suddenly putting someone on his phone to talk to me.
The man on the phone was a manager who was in charge of the parking area for particular groups.
I was thinking to myself it was probably a good time for me to make a start in fixing this issue up.
Therefore, I took the advantage of having him on my phone to discuss about the on-going problems about the parking area for PWD,
and the possible solutions he may already have.

The manager gave me some promises for what I had asked for.
A thought flashed in my head that it should be better if I could see him and talk to him in person,
and to as least get to know each other, me and him for the sake of a further contact.
I did not hesitate to follow my notion to see him, so I drove to Siam Paragon soon after we had a talk.
The problem discussed related to the parking could be broken into a few main point:

  1. The parking lots do not meet standards.
    As it shows in the picture, there are some parking lots for PWDs, but they do not meet standards required by ministerial regulations.
    The bay size looks not alright and the wheelchair symbol on the floor looks different.
  2. There are a smaller number of the priority parking lots than it should be.
    The manager told me that there were 2,000 parking lots at the shopping Centre, but there’re just a few for the parking lots for PWDs.
    So they were in the process of making the necessary modifications. (This made me felt delighted)
  3. The services related to the priority parking have to be improved to meet standards.
    The staff services in giving information or helping the PWDs to access to the parking, is actually fairly acceptable in some level.
    But the staffs themselves do not profoundly understand, and some of them even misunderstand the roles of their jobs.For instance, at M floor, in one block is provided to fit for 4 cars.
    At the time I was parking at the southern area of this floor, I could not park properly inside the parking bay because the its space was too small, as there was another car parking next to mine.
    So I had to stop my car half in and out the parking bay to get myself out of the car first, then the security guard had to help me push my car backward into the bay to park it properly.

Siam Paragon is considered as it in the top class shopping centre in Asia standards.
I vaguely remember that this shopping centre once won the prize either Asia prize or word prize.

The size of a parking bay for PWDs has been clearly declared in Ministerial regulations, but when we look at the accomplishment of priority parking area appear in this shopping Centre, it does not seem that Siam Paragon is willing to comply with the legislation.
The priority parking lots in this shopping centre could not be compared to the ones provided at G floor for super cars.
The parking area for those expensive supper car is much bigger and easier to access.

For this time of meeting, I and the manager only made a discussion, but I will lodge the letter to him to officially inform the occurring problems about this matter.
I need to finish my plan as soon as possible before placing my hand on the matter giving the advices and helping them completes their work in the standard form.
This is for our nation reputation.

/Saba
Accessibility Is Freedom
10/23/2016

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[The car bays look odd even the sign itself. This accomplishments are far lower than standards required by ministerial regulations.]
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[One block is provided to fit four cars in, and the way the sign is represented could not be convinced of the priority parking.]
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[The parking bays for super car are big and easy to access giving the contrast with the ones provided for PWDs, how could it be?]

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