Accessible Facilities

Soon since we announced to protect our rights by using the law enforcement, I had often received the update from our fellow members that the Imperial World Sam-rong was gentrifying its skywalk entrance, connected with BTS, to be more accessible with ramp. Today this latest image reveals how the final work looks like.

25th of June, I went to participate in a meeting with the management team of Makro (Siam Makro). My role in this context acted like an advisor building understanding, providing information, and suggesting related issues as a whole.   My guideline was to widen the perspective to include all groups of people, not just for PWDs, to provide equality and to all so that everyone is happy.   We wish that they will set a new standard for construction and make proper service management after work. We’re pleased to be part of the team and willing to give more of …

The Century is a compact plaza built primarily as a cinema. There are currently two branches of it. I frequently passed by one of its branches at Victory Monument and observed some of its flaws regarding accessibility

We have received official answered back letter from Siam Makro. They will urgently fix up the accessible facilities as soon as possible. I’m very please to hear that Siam Macro 90 branches will be equally access for everyone. Thank you!

I did make a count down since I made a field survey days ago. By far, I yet received no contact from them. Nevertheless, all Makro branches, 90 stores, must be fully accessible within 3 months of time, and must be constructed perfectly and correctly by law. If you guys get around some of its branches, you can send us an updated image of them. We will make a constant field survey to update the improvement as well. Constructing correctly, according to the law, is just a minimum requirement. If they can make it beyond the minimum standard, the better. …

According to our informed acknowledgment, Tesco Lotus is a place where the misuse of priority parking is found so prevalent. We thus made an effort to make a field survey to Tesco Lotus Express, Bang Na Branch. This time we’d like to do it differently, in a more relaxed and informal style.

Fashion Island is a department store of constant improvement on accessibility. I’ve been doing discussion, a well thought-provoking meeting, with them regularly that’s why can see its impressive progress. It would not be exaggerated if I rank this mall among the top in term of splendid accessibility. Recently I got a call from the management team to provide some further ideas and recommendations regarding the issue. We then sat on the chair at a meeting room and had a very exciting discussion.

Bangkok, a city of global destination, on March 14, 2019, I took my foreign friends a city tour. Before the tour begins, we would like to have some coffee, so we rushed to Terminal 21 shopping mall at A-soke. At the mall’s entrance, which connected to BTS A-soke station, we found a brand-new, and magnificent, coffee shop named CPS Coffee. Its glamour and brilliant design drew our attention to get in. Yet we were unable to do so as it was highly inaccessible. A friend of mine then told that “I came to this shop in the morning, but I …

I’ve informed from our colleague saying that a designated accessible parking at PTT gas station at Chai-ya-pruk Road, Non-tha-bu-ri, is obviously founded to be taken over as a car tent for sale. Then contacted the company for immediate resolution but the contacting officer replied that “I’m afraid that I cannot yet make a decision on this regard, since I have to wait for my superior coming back from abroad first for authority.”

According to the incapability of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), the current owner of the entire BTS, that failed to provide adequate elevators and other accessibility facilities on its BTS 23 stations, a group of people with disabilities, for this reason, had prosecuted the BMA and finally won a lawsuit on November 24, 2014. The court thus issued an order to BMA for them to complete, constructed by law, all the remaining elevators and other supportive accessibility facilities within one-year time. As such, the completion should be fulfilled by the beginning of 2016. Nevertheless, the construction remains unfinished to this day, …