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Redemptorist School-area disabled bemoan lack of progress of wheelchair path

Cars parked on the side within Soi Paniadchang create obstacles for wheelchairs users.

Warunya Thongrod
Physically challenged residents using wheelchairs near the Redemptorist Vocational School for Persons with Disabilities are urging Pattaya City Hall to move faster on the already approved plan to construct a dedicated path through their neighborhood.
More than 3 million baht has been allocated for construction of a wheelchair path from Big C Extra on Central Road down Soi Paniadchang leading to the Father Ray Foundation. Yet while the money is approved, construction still hasn’t started, leaving the disabled navigating a narrow, pothole-lined street.
“Certain areas of the roads are uneven and have holes, causing twice the difficulties because, if we are not careful, a front wheel may fall into a hole and we will fall off the wheelchair,” said Singkhorn Thimdee, 28. “My friends have fallen from their wheelchairs many times already and the soi is very narrow. We have to be careful of cars and bikes, particularly at night when we have to purchase lights for our wheelchairs as a signal for others to notice us. … I ask that Pattaya City Hall improve the roads, including increasing inclined paths that are too very high for wheelchair users.”
Jetsada Khunpol, 30, said parked bikes and cars pose obstacles, as well as residents who have created their own PVC waste-drainage pipes.
“Some of us do not have enough strength to lift our front wheel, taking a long time before we can even lift the wheel,” Jetsada said. “I ask that drainage pipes, even the city’s own, be narrower.”


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