Accessible Parking

I would like to raise this question to the public. I was sued for defamation by publication on the issue concerning accessible parking violations. [Plaintiff] The plaintiff testified at the court inquiry that he claimed a legitimate right to park at the accessible parking spot as his father who had hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body) was his passenger.

Got the news “The new top executive changed”, then the new car routes designed and cancel the 2 accessible parking spots on the ground floor to become the car turning route… Thailand ministerial accessible facilities regulation 2021 is 25:1 ratio (25 parking : 1 accessible parking spot) please kindly check if you fit on.

One of our members sent us picture and reported: >Today around 1pm, they parked there out of habit. >I want our society to acknowledge the rights of people with disabilities >Our society really does not value their rights enough, totally everywhere

The issue of accessible parking spaces can be improved in many ways, and we have worked to solve this problem during the last 7 years in as many aspects as we could. In the policy aspect, we were appointed to be part of the committee. However, the movement had not been successful. This will be the second chance to get this problem solved.

At Tesco Lotus Rama 3 where the accessible parking space was incorrectly used as a rental area for retail purposes, we decided to start a discussion on our page and within less than 30 minutes, a person who was using the accessible parking space called me to apologize, and said that he would move his car ‘immediately’ out. After that, he also took a picture and sent it to me as a confirmation. Later on, the manager of the rental department at Tesco Lotus Rama 3 called me and I insisted firmly that the area needed to be strictly managed.

5 July 2021 The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities(DEP), led by Director-General, Professor Siriluck S (Architecture, Lat Krabang University), and the “Accessibility Is Freedom” team, we went to observe the construction and management of facilities at the Fashion Island mall on Ramintra Road, and also presented an award to them for being a good mall role model, with the Building Manager – Khun Apisit K and his team welcoming us.

Because we want our city to change. In order to do so, we must identify the problem first. [Saba] led [Ice+Book+Rew] to explore the new train station to let them see by their own eyes. The new generation will take care of our society in the future. Let’s listen to them. SabaLive / Thailand Tomorrow – the series

Throughout the situation of Covid-19, security forces are the only group of people that is authorized to enter the area under 2 hours. However, in the area, there are no disabled people at all. Nonetheless, we are looking for the keepers of a white car. If you are the owner of this car please do contact us. As for the person who parks over the area, please notify them as following:

The driver is a beautiful woman, came with her friends. Also, one of her friends gets off the car to guide the parking. Caption and photo provided by one of our members yesterday. This space is carefully provided for disability parking, but it is ruined because of your ignorance. This is a social problem, and everyone should cooperate to fix this.

Not long before you all may have seen a post from us urging of priority parking space that had been trespassed by rental shops in PTT Pongnamron gas station. Shortly after the post was published, the owner has contacted me to apologized and shown her willing to fix the issue.