A group of about 100 disabled people plan to submit a petition for the Supreme Administrative Court to follow up its order for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and Bangkok Transit System (BTS) Co to improve facilities to enable them to travel on the skytrain.

After six years of a court battle, Supreme Administrative Court two years ago issued an order for the BMA and BTS to take action as called for by the disabled by installing elevators and building other facilities to enable them to travel conveniently by January 2016.

But the two agencies have so far completed less than 50% of the facilities for the disabled.

The decision to petition the Supreme Administrative Court came at a seminar on Thursday of the disabled on their rights to travel facilites under the 1981 law on the rehabilitation of the disabled.

Thirayuth Sokonthawit, chairman of an alliance for the right of the disabled to mass transit, said the disabled want the Supreme Administrative Court to follow up whether the BMA and BTS have complied with the court’s order.

They want the BMA to also compensate them for the loss of time and their travel expenses without conveniences provided.

In January this year, a group of disabled filed a lawsuit with the Civil Court demanding 1.4 million baht compensation for each of them for not being provided with travel conveniences. The case is still being considered by the court.

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