Issues & Problems

Google Map We’ve seen they added the accessibility information for a while now. This is the most wanted feature for wheelchair travelers.

Days before, I saw someone leave off the glasses on the floor just as you see. I’d like you to answer my question… . “If you see someone is leave off the glass just like this, what will you do?”

“You’re helping us and you get nothing…” A voice from the Thammasat University law students, year 2016 that I had the opportunity to work with. This is the second time that we are meeting to make an appeal at the Traffic and Transportation Department of Bangkok City (TTD) for the construction of skywalk so that it’s accessible to everyone.

There is sometimes I need to use a restroom when I take a ride on MRT blueline. I have been traveling by using the metro train for very long ago. Just like you, there are some times I need to use a restroom in urgency. Well, but the disabled restroom is always closed while the rest are all open freely. There is always a sign stating that “Out of service. Sorry for any inconveniences.” I don’t know what is the logic behind this but it’s such an incredibly wrongdoing. It should be all open all the time during service hours.    

Oct 20, 2016 As a representative of the rights of person with disabilities and the Thammasat University law students 2016 to filed a complaint for the BTS’s skywalk at the Office of Traffic and Transportation.

It’s quite weird that although we have laws and regulations regarding with standard of accessible facilities, few of them has successfully happened. Today we attended the conference on behalf of many, as Accessibility Is Freedom whom we provide social contributions to raise the awareness and virtue of public mind, and as T4A whom we have common goals in actualizing an inclusive accessibility on public transportations.

Students contacted me because they wanted more information about the accessibility issue associated with sky walk. They would like to send accessibility project report to their professor. I asked for all the students have to involved in the project, to let them understand the real problem.

For a year and a half that I’ve jointly work with the “Transportation For All (T4A)” team to improved the public metro train system. Some of our T4A members have been working on the relate issue for more than 20 years. Here is a summary that represents a failure of the accessible facilities design on the rail system in Bangkok which will be implement within 6 years.

Public restrooms, almost all of them built with a none standard even in Thailand we have a very good accessible law clearly defined since very long time.  

It is not easy to encourage people with disabilities to step out of their comfort zone and start living-out to the public communities. It is the government’s responsibilities to help them having normal living life and also living equally and in harmony with people in their communities. Some of community’s facilities such as accessible parking lots should be built differently due to extra accessing spaces are needed. If we can choose, people with disabilities would love to share facilities and live peacefully in the community. That’s right, we don’t want to be viewed as aliens in the community. Elevator is one of facilities which …