Issues & Problems

Japan Car Parking Fee

Apr 2015 Japan is a big island. The land area is almost 50% less than Thailand. (Thailand=513,114.6sqkm. / Japan:377,835sqkm – Thank you for an information from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) So then, the land must be using as good as possible. Our country the one who has home and car is “easy & nothing”, but in Japan is not .. Days that we’re living at Tokyo, I saw not much cars and traffic while there are too many on our major cities.

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Japan Banana story

Hello Accessibility Is Freedom Live In Japan / The Untold Story still have a lot of things to talking to. Whenever I got something I will post one by one. Someone might think that I always talking to a good side what about the bad one? Well, I went there to learn and feel their culture, things around. Must say there will be always good and bad things right?. Depend which side you would like to talking to. All my writing about Japan is my first pressure and I’d like you to where the AccessibilityIsFreedom have learn. Alright, we have …

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I’m going to the court for the judgement tomorrow

  Time line: 13 September 2007: The people with disability sued by using The Administrative Court to force BTS Sky Train prepared the basic of accessibility. 22 September 2009: The people with disability lost the case because on that time the accessibility Thai law have got any detail & description. The Reason of the the lawsuit: 1. While constructing BTS Sky Train, What is The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration have done for the disability person? >>They said “None” 2. Since the first constructing BTS Sky Train did they have the elevator and any accessibility supported? >>They said “Not from the beginning, …

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Minutes Meeting – Impact from airlines refuse to serve people with disabilities

According to people affected by the airlines refuse to serve people with disabilities often occur. Representatives of the disabled has taken a complaint to the “Commission social affairs, youth, the elderly, children, the disabled and the disadvantaged”. The subcommittee considered the complaint. This case is an example of the discrimination problem between people with disabilities and the airline in Thailand. Therefore, the subcommittee invite representatives of agencies involved in the supervision, control and licensing to airline attendants to find ways to resolve the problem in a systematic way. And to solve problems impact to all the airlines in Thailand. Today …

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Starbucks Thailand, Central Rama 9 Ground Floor IS NOT wheelchair friendly

I’ve known Alex since I was doing a big bang on the accessibility issues. We were been keep touching each other since then… Alex had an accident and got spinal cord injured at the higher level than me. His arms are not strong as I am but he still races his wheelchair faster than me. He lives in Koa Samui and has just married with lovey Thai girl and they come to Bangkok for visa. This round we can finally have a good time to meet. I picked up the department store that I hope the accessibilities will be alright …

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