Playing tricks on the handicapped! BTS walkway slammed

 

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Pictures of handicap access to a lift at Sai Luat station in Samut Prakarn are going viral online. 

 

The snaps show a veritable obstacle course for an able bodied person let alone someone in a wheelchair. 

 

They were posted by "Ahmed Al-Sharif" on "Hey! These are Thailand's footpaths" who asked "How on earth did this happen?".

 

Thai Rath picked up on the online furor suggesting in their headline that someone was playing tricks on the handicapped. 

 

They quoted a Facebook user called Pakpoom Pattanapanyasat as saying: "Clearly the designer never went there, and the constructors never spoke to the designer". 

 

Others suggested possible fixes to the problem. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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Just to clarify before the hating starts.

 

The civil design of the stations was the responsibility of MRTA and NOT BTS.

 

There are others of similar "design" on the extension too ????

 

Not as bad, yet quite hilarious as well are the huge trees or phone booths in the middle of the sidewalks that you have to go around by walking on the road.

Thai engineering at its best

Makes you wonder what this country will be like in another 10 or 20 years  ????

^  just about what it is now.  A laughing stock for organization, design, and functionality in just about every area of human endeavor. 

I can just see a log jamb of wheelchairs at the end of the ramp stuck in the rubble and loose wires, looks suspiciously like the work of the builders on my new house.

Well what do you expect?

In this country if you are in a wheelchair you should stay home hidden away from public gaze.

This is just another example of brain -dead designers not having a clue, and dont really care.

Just look at some of the disabled ramps at government buildings totally unusable by wheelchair users.

This isn’t a trick. This is just workers who simply don’t give a single solitary ****. 

The planning was so intense that smoke came out their ears, ... which then obscured the plans. 

54 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well what do you expect?

In this country if you are in a wheelchair you should stay home hidden away from public gaze.

This is just another example of brain -dead designers not having a clue, and dont really care.

Just look at some of the disabled ramps at government buildings totally unusable by wheelchair users.

 

a thai educated, professional middle class acquaintance once said to me that she believed disabled people were those who had done something wrong in a previous life. i'm not sure how widely held such views are but the disabled are certainly not much of a concern for thai society.

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Well what do you expect?

In this country if you are in a wheelchair you should stay home hidden away from public gaze.

This is just another example of brain -dead designers not having a clue, and dont really care.

Just look at some of the disabled ramps at government buildings totally unusable by wheelchair users.

Yes. I made the mistake of complaining to an IO at Aranya when they would not let me back into Thailand the same day, which had been no problem on several previous trips.... paid 200 baht "fine" and in/out.
Now I was separated from my wife and my medication, with possible fatal consequences.
The IOs response was " Maybe you should go back to country you came from". Seems to be a not uncommon Asian attitude to disabled folks, in my experience. "Stay home and die as quickly as you can, please."

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Well what do you expect?

In this country if you are in a wheelchair you should stay home hidden away from public gaze.

This is just another example of brain -dead designers not having a clue, and dont really care.

Just look at some of the disabled ramps at government buildings totally unusable by wheelchair users.

Very true. I see people in wheelchairs and other mobility devices out and about in Tokyo all the time. It's almost like handicapped people don't exist in Thailand. What a difference there is between a developed country vs a developing country.

55 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

a thai educated, professional middle class acquaintance once said to me that she believed disabled people were those who had done something wrong in a previous life. i'm not sure how widely held such views are but the disabled are certainly not much of a concern for thai society.

 Agree, there are plenty of folks who have this thinking and plenty who are quite young.

 

The eternal problem is that the planners/designers make what they think the disabled need instead of asking the disabled what they actually need and involving them at early stages.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well what do you expect?

In this country if you are in a wheelchair you should stay home hidden away from public gaze.

This is just another example of brain -dead designers not having a clue, and dont really care.

Just look at some of the disabled ramps at government buildings totally unusable by wheelchair users.

Have you seen the ramp at Poipet? Leaving Thailand to get upstairs to stamp out is bad enough. It must be 45 degrees. ????????

I don't suppose the workers building it ,ever thought this is not going to work,

 

just get on with the job and follow the plans .it could have been built for half

 

the cost if the ramp just came straight from and to the lift.somebody should get the

sack for this but of cause they wont,

regards worgeordie

30 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I don't suppose the workers building it ,ever thought this is not going to work,

 

just get on with the job and follow the plans .it could have been built for half

 

the cost if the ramp just came straight from and to the lift.somebody should get the

sack for this but of cause they wont,

regards worgeordie

Nobody gets the sack. Government doesn't sack anyone unless it is a criminal offence. The bad guy gets transfer to other district.  Can someone verify this. May be it is true.

45 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I don't suppose the workers building it ,ever thought this is not going to work,

just get on with the job and follow the plans .it could have been built for half

If I had a dollar for every time the civils chaps have said "it was like that on the drawing" I'd have a few hundred bucks.

 

Even back home it's little different ????

 

3 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

The planning was so intense that smoke came out their ears, ... which then obscured the plans. 

After all, as someone said here in TV long before I did, the P in Thailand stands for Planning.

1 minute ago, LawrenceN said:

After all, as someone said here in TV long before I did, the P in Thailand stands for Planning.

Never a truer word spoken ...

 

Something very similar is currently being constructed on Sukhamvit Road at Pattaya.  The lift to take disabled people up to the walkway across the road is so wide it take up the whole path.  Anybody wishing to continue past it (on foot or in a wheelchair) has to go in the road !

 

As long as the designers, architects, planners and constructors all get paid then it is job done.

I have a disabled friend who has travelled the world in his wheelchair. He told me that Bangkok was by far the worst place he had been for wheelchair users.

21 hours ago, monkeycu said:

Thai engineering at its best

Makes you wonder what this country will be like in another 10 or 20 years  ????

Just the same !