There are now a number of free services which make such lists very easy to set up. Until September 1999, it is offering the opportunity for us to register views and outstanding concerns on the proposed policy. Since 1992, activists promoting better access for people with disabilities have been campaigning in Bangkok for a new mass transit system, Bangkok Skytrain, to be accessible. With the system about to go into operation they recently launched a last-ditch effort. The activists also held demonstrations in Bangkok.
Further collaborations seem to be starting up as a result.
The Bangkok activist have had another recent success. They are running as a pilot project on 2 key bus routes. Please send us your latest details and news if you would like your group to be profiled in future Flashes. In 1998 Philippine NGOs that had already been meeting informally for two years under the Sustainable Transport Forum decided to form an advocacy network called the Sustainable Transport Network of the Philippines. Delegates were somewhat shocked by the massive road-building plans in the study.