Overview
Legal/Policy Framework
Draft Standard
Submissions on the Draft Proposed Accessible Transportation Standard
Examples of What Ontario Municipalities are Doing in Advance of the Release of the Accessible Transportation Standard
Useful Resources

Overview

The Ontario Government is issuing five sets of standards under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA) to achieve the vision of a barrier-free Ontario by 2025. The final proposed Accessible Transportation Standard has now been submitted to the Minister of Community and Social Services for consideration as law. This standard is the only one that is sector specific, that is, it relates specifically to modes of transportation that come under the jurisdiction of provincial and municipal governments.

• Status Update as of March 9, 2010 as Presented to: Ontario General Contractors Association

From the Ontario government's Backgrounder, "Ontario's Accessibility Plan" released on May 21, 2010, "In response to public feedback from the standards review process, Ontario will integrate these next three standards into one streamlined regulation." 

The harmonized standard is expected to be released for public review this fall or winter.

Legal/Policy Framework

• Ontario Highway Traffic Act
• Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2001

Final Accessibility Standards for Transportation have not yet been brought forward in a regulation. The standard is expected in 2010. A draft of the standard is found below.


Draft Standard

• Transportation Draft Standard
  

Submissions on the Draft Proposed Accessible Transportation Standard

Below are comments from AMCTO and a few others of particular municipal interest on the draft standards. This in no way represents all the submissions made on the draft standards. For a complete list of submissions on the draft standards, please contact the ADO. Please note that in placing other organization's submissions here in this website that it should not be implied that AMCTO endorses those submissions unless explicitly stated in AMCTO's own submission. These other submissions are provided only as reference material.

• AMCTO's April 2009 Submission on Proposed Accessible Transporation Standard
• Canadian Association for the Deaf - Response to the Draft Proposed Accessible Transportation Standard
• Ontario Human Rights Commission - Submission to the Ministry of Community and Social Services Regarding the Final Proposed Accessible Transportation Standard
• Accessible Transportation - Readiness assessment and estimated cost to implement the Initial Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard
• An Approach to the Harmonization of AODA Standards - Prepared by London Transit on behalf of the Ontario Transit Industry
• TTC Submission to the Ontario government regarding the Final Proposed Accessible Transportation Standard
  

Examples of What Ontario Municipalities are Doing in Advance of the Release of the Accessible Transportation Standard

• OHRC on Announcing Transit Stops

       Please alert us to new examples

Useful Resources

• Information & Regulations Concerning Wheelchairs
• MTO Presentation, "New and Emerging Vehicles", November 2008
• Information from the Highway Traffic Act
• Accessible Transit Services in Ontario, 2001 Part III: Accessible Transit in Ontario  Discussion Paper on Accessible Transit Services in Ontario, 2001 Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Toward a Family of Accessible Transit Services, Durham Region Transit, November 2009
• Mississauga, Accessible Bus Services
• Checklist for Transit Shelters
• Guide to Removing Communication Barriers for Travellers with Disabilities
• The Application of Universal Design to Issues of Aging and Mobility - Glenn Miller, Canadian Urban Institute, Sustainable TransForum, 2007