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**larentont** · 09-21-2012, 10:31 PM

To make Bangkok more accessible to disabled people it is not necessary to 'build ramps', it's more a matter of not placing so many obstructions, motorbikes, rubbish etc. on pavements, addressing the state of the pavements (fixing holes etc.) and traffic stopping at pedestrian crossings (isn't that the whole point of pedestrian crossings anyway?). All of these issues would benefit society as a whole and not just disabled people.

As I have already said, the other issues the letter writer brought up in the "Bangkok Post" are, in my view as someone who uses a wheelchair and spent time in Bangkok and Thailand both with my wife and alone, incorrect. I have written to the BP with my alternative viewpoint

David

How can we solve the problem of overcrowded poppulation? Those you think of as 'obstructions', many of them( if not most) are the tools for living or working in this tiny land. Sure we can do so many great other things, but the poverty is prominent in thailand among many other greater problems. It's the problem of prioritizing what we should do first, isn't it?-when the country have tons of problems with limited resources.

By the way, I'm not arguing about the importantness of having accessible way for the disable persons.

09-21-2012, 10:31 PM	#35
larentont Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 520 Senior Member	To make Bangkok more accessible to disabled people it is not necessary to 'build ramps', it's more a matter of not placing so many obstructions, motorbikes, rubbish etc. on pavements, addressing the state of the pavements (fixing holes etc.) and traffic stopping at pedestrian crossings (isn't that the whole point of pedestrian crossings anyway?). All of these issues would benefit society as a whole and not just disabled people. As I have already said, the other issues the letter writer brought up in the "Bangkok Post" are, in my view as someone who uses a wheelchair and spent time in Bangkok and Thailand both with my wife and alone, incorrect. I have written to the BP with my alternative viewpoint David How can we solve the problem of overcrowded poppulation? Those you think of as 'obstructions', many of them( if not most) are the tools for living or working in this tiny land. Sure we can do so many great other things, but the poverty is prominent in thailand among many other greater problems. It's the problem of prioritizing what we should do first, isn't it?-when the country have tons of problems with limited resources. By the way, I'm not arguing about the importantness of having accessible way for the disable persons.
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