Accessible Facilities

PWDs Sue Against City Hall Transportation For All (T4A), Disabilities Thailand, and Person with disabilities (PWDs) networks will, once again, make a gathering marching to sue against the Bangkok City Hall  and demand for reasonable compensations from their failure to meet the Administrative Court’s order to install newly elevators and accessible facilities at all the original 23 BTS stations, giving it one year implementation and it is now three years passed. At Administrative Court, Chang-Wat-ta-na road.

BTS Sam-rong Station Bangkok, Thailand. BTS Sam-rong station, the metro electric train has just recently opened for service. After 3 years of intensive collaboration a group of activists had provided to authorities who were in charge of this project. I’m going to have a deliberate look on it with firsthand experience. To see whether is there any improved accessibility comparing to the old layout & design.

After the Administrative Court has ordered in one year timeframe of providing of accessible infrastructure on all 23 BTS stations. Three years has passed and the project is still unfinished with numerous spots found inaccessible.

Bangkok, Thailand: Soon after the Administrative Court has issued the order: To completion within a year the installation of elevators and all accessible facilities constructed strictly by law, on all connections from the ground up to the platform floor of the BTS stations.

Smile and happiness is priceless. Shot with a foreign family, this image took place on March 2017 when I participated in the press conference on the “BTS’s first four lift delivery date, joined by the Bangkok Governor and his Deputy, and many involved parties. I met this family when the event was over. I got a chance to talk with them and was very impressive when they said that, as a regular passenger, they’re very happy that the lift’s installed so they could use it. Needless to explain, let the image says itself. What we see is the smile and …

Got and opportunity to talk about the active projects that we’re currently working on. The magazine was published since 10 Sep 2017. Thanks to Andrew Biggs and BangkokPost for having us a change to speak and support us as always.

After an intensive of SabaLive work, here are the main points I would like to highlight;

It was a splendid field work to see what was really happening in our real life. We intended to do it without any advance preparation. We wanted to make it real, natural, and authentic as much as possible. So, its outcome was typically what we’re facing in our society. It showed urban outlook in the sense of accessibility and social perspective toward priority parking, as well as PWDs.

SabaLive: Priority Parking Survey Mission. Meet on an exclusive guest. Yes! you will be surprised! 5pm / THU / STAY TUNED!

Foodland Fully Drive Forward>>Since a Foodland Sri-na-ka-rin have done fixing the priority parking spots. Today I just got a changed to visit and check around and it looks amazing. Foodland is moving forward to step#2 to fix the rest room and the other basic accessible facilities.