EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I'm not 100% what the full accessibility laws are but I do know that everything is supposed to be completely accessible by 2025 or there are stiff fines for missing that date.
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W. K. Lis
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Historical vehicles would likely be exempted. Just like you will not likely see seat-belts in a historical Model T Ford.
Voltz
Senior Member
Well by then there may be human teleportation devices. so I don't foresee issues with accessibility
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Steve X
Senior Member
That's if we don't eliminated ourselves with nuclear warfare, polluted atmosphere or some unbeatable disease .
smallspy
Senior Member
They can and do reject the lowest bidder all the time. It's not just qualifying, a lot of tenders are split on a financial - lowest cost - and technical basis.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Hopefully they have inserted a penalty clause with teeth.
AoD
AoD
aquateam
Active Member
Well, ideally instead of just punishing municipalities for not meeting the deadline, they would have provided some, any funds to help with the expensive job of retrofitting the entire subway network with elevators.
I think the TTC is on track to meet the 2025 date though. The federal funding really helped because before that, most of the station retrofits were "below the line" capital expenses.
Montreal currently has it much worse, and the goal is 2038 for the system to be accessible.
Meanwhile, the entire Vancouver SkyTrain system is accessible.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Well, ideally instead of just punishing municipalities for not meeting the deadline, they would have provided some, any funds to help with the expensive job of retrofitting the entire subway network with elevators.
I think the TTC is on track to meet the 2025 date though. The federal funding really helped because before that, most of the station retrofits were "below the line" capital expenses.
Montreal currently has it much worse, and the goal is 2038 for the system to be accessible.
Actually I was referring to Bondfield getting the Glencairn bid, not Easier Access. Sorry about the confusion.
AoD
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amnesiajune
Senior Member
FWIW, everything the TTC has built since the SkyTrain opened is also accessible. The decision to not make the SRT (which opened nine months earlier) accessible was fairly controversial.
APTA-2048
Senior Member
A bit late: it was nice to see the vintage cars out for Canada Day.
TTC streetcar parade by Adrian Badaraco, on Flickr
TTC streetcar parade by Adrian Badaraco, on Flickr
WillTo
Senior Member
Shuttle bus line is awful today. At Eglinton is stretches from the bus stop (Mandarin buffet) pretty much to Eglinton Avenue.
I remember it a much better service in past years.
I remember it a much better service in past years.
salsa
Senior Member
Why doesn't the TTC use artic buses for subway shuttles?
Megaton327
Senior Member
They've mentioned this in a few places. One is that the artics are badly needed on the routes where they usually operate, switching them to regular buses would result in extremely poor service around the city, and for many of those routes there are not necessarily useful alternate routes vs. certain subway closures where there are many alternates.
Additionally, many of the subway closures are in environments where the artics would be difficult to maneuver. This is compounded by the sheer number of shuttle buses needed--it can already be hard for regular buses to work their way in and out of their stops, in tight environments like downtown yonge it would be very difficult to handle a ton of artics at every stop.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
The turns they have to make are probably to tight for them, also there may not be space for them in the particular station to allow them to be used/ They do sometimes use them for Bloor Danforth and SRT closures.