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After dissing disabled, Skytrain must lift its game

A broken window on the entrance to the elevator at the Asoke BTS Skytrain station is the result of pent-up frustration by a harassed handicapped passenger. (Photo B/AccessibilityIsFreedom)

Enough is enough, wheelchair-bound Manit Intharapim must have told himself before smashing the glass elevator door of a BTS lift at Asok station.

A rights activist, Mr Manit who is director of the "Accessibility Is Freedom" group, did this for one reason: to draw the attention of those involved to how people with disabilities are deprived of their rights to access all facilities at public transport stops.

Even though I don't condone violence, I still sympathise with him and those in similar predicaments who have struggled for years for better service.

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