Comments on: Welcome To Sooka Sentral

By: Victor Chin’s Empathy - The Digital Awakening

Victor Chin’s Empathy - The Digital Awakening — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:01:21 +0000

[...] from University Malaya for an access audit exercise in May last year. I had complained about the ramp with the extremely steep gradient at Sooka Sentral which led to the building management agreeing to an access audit of the [...]

By: T-Boy

T-Boy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:26:53 +0000

Well, you know, you could always make a Youtube video for the lulz.

Mind you, you’d open yourself up to injury. Perhaps a… “stunt double”…

Peter:
Do you wanna be my stunt double for that act?

By: T-Boy

T-Boy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:12:43 +0000

Hah! I remember that ramp. Hani and I were making sarky comments about how damn pointless it was.

Peter:
I asked Wuan if she could walk up that ramp. She did not reply and took the stairs instead. You are right. A ramp that a non-disabled persons cannot use is damn pointless. Somebody should write “Ramp Building for Dummies” for people who think a ramp is a ramp is a ramp…

By: Hafiz

Hafiz — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:56:07 +0000

Then you should be there around 7-10 am weekdays when deliveries are made. There another ramp of the same gradient down the road where the MIDA building is. That one is more heavily used since the MIDA building is occupied, compared to that SOOKA building which just finished construction just months ago.

Peter:
That I will do if I am in the vicinity to see how functional that ramp is for delivery carts. And as you said, and I wholly agree, it reflects badly on the people who designed and the people who approved the designs there. I have written to MRCB regarding this matter. The reply was tactful but without a commitment to make amends to the situation.

By: moo_t

moo_t — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:25:58 +0000

The ramp just too steep, even for carts. It is also hazardous to roll carts down the ramp. The ramp should be lowered by 15 degrees.

Peter:
If the ramp was really meant for carts, it will be a glaring example of misplaced priorities, and the exclusion and segregation of disabled people by a major corporation in Malaysia, especially when this is their showcase project.