Rainforest
Senior Member
However, we must account for the notion that most elderly people are not capable of doing that and we ought to keep that in mind when building transit. They should not be cast aside to Wheel-trans for basic trips that could be done with adequately planned transit. Public transit should serve the general public and not exclusively the working age commuter. Besides how are we going to rely on Wheel-Trans to transport our seniors given the aging nature of our population.
I'm not saying we should go extremely out of our way to cater to them, and I understand that whatever we build has to be efficient for the average commuter. But I'm not so sure I believe its appropriate to assume our elderly will 'toughen up' and walk and segregate them from using general transit.
This factor should be taken into account. However, proposals of less frequent LRT stops are usually tied with running parallel local bus service.
In that case, people with mobility issues living along a major street will still be better off than those living in the middle of the block (and there is no way to serve the second group with scheduled routes, only with WheelTrans or another kind of on-demand service). The first group will have access to the local bus stops (likely, even more frequent than 400 m that TTC wants to see on the surface LRT routes).