TTC accessibility

Handicap accessibility on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) system is limited but improving. As is true for most mass transit systems, most of the Toronto subway and RT was built before wheelchair access was a requirement. However, all new subway stations built since 1996 are equipped with elevators, and elevators have been installed in 23 stations built before 1996, including one station that was expanded in 2002, Sheppard-Yonge). A total of 28 out of Toronto's 69 subway and Scarborough RT stations are accessible (Spadina is only accessible on the Bloor-Danforth line). Furthermore, 126 of the TTC's 167 bus routes (including community and night bus routes) are accessible as of June 22, 2008. Currently, the TTC's streetcar network is not accessible; however, the fleet is planned to be gradually replaced with modern, low-floor vehicles in the near future.

ubway and RT

Accessible stations are equipped with elevators, wide fare gates, and accessible doors. Elevators are frequently out of service; the TTC provides a phone number, 416-539-LIFT, which provides a recorded message listing any elevators which are out of service.

*All 5 stations on the Sheppard line, opened in 2002, are fully accessible and equipped with elevators.
** Sheppard-Yonge
** Bayview
** Bessarion
** Leslie
** Don Mills

*15 of the 32 stations on the Yonge-University-Spadina line are accessible. Downsview, opened in 1996, was equipped with elevators when it opened and was among the first accessible stations. Elevators are being installed in Lawrence West and North York Centre stations. However, St. Clair West station has an elevator at the Heath Street exit, but the station is not considered accessible.
** Downsview
** Eglinton West
** St. George
** Queen's Park
** Osgoode
** Union
** Queen
** Dundas
** Bloor-Yonge
** St. Clair
** Davisville
** Eglinton
** York Mills
** Sheppard-Yonge
** Finch

*10 of the 31 stations on the Bloor-Danforth subway line are accessible:
** Kipling
** Jane
** Dundas West
** Bathurst
** Spadina (Bloor-Danforth line only)
** St. George
** Bloor-Yonge
** Broadview
** Main Street
** Kennedy

*2 of the 5 stations on the Scarborough RT are accessible:
** Kennedy
** Scarborough Centre

Buses

109 of the TTC's 145 daytime bus routes are accessible as of August 31, 2008, using low-floor or lift-equipped buses. Not all stops along an accessible route are accessible (in particular, many subway stations where buses terminate are not accessible). Accessible buses are sometimes seen on non-accessible routes, but the TTC does not maintain a list of routes for which some trips are accessible.

The following bus routes are accessible:

*5 Avenue Rd
*7 Bathurst
*8 Broadview
*9 Bellamy
*11 Bayview
*12 Kingston Rd
*14 Glencairn
*15 Evans
*16 McCowan
*17 Birchmount
*20 Cliffside
*21 Brimley
*22 Coxwell
*23 Dawes
*24 Victoria Park
*25 Don Mills
*26 Dupont
*28 Davisville
*29 Dufferin
*30 Lambton
*31 Greenwood
*32 Eglinton West
*34 Eglinton East
*35 Jane
*36 Finch West
*37 Islington
*38 Highland Creek
*39 Finch East
*40 Junction
*41 Keele
*42 Cummer
*43 Kennedy
*44 Kipling South
*45 Kipling
*46 Martin Grove
*47 Lansdowne
*49 Bloor West
*51 Leslie
*53 Steeles East
*54 Lawrence East
*56 Leaside
*57 Midland
*60 Steeles West
*61 Avenue Rd North
*62 Mortimer
*63 Ossington
*64 Main
*65 Parliament
*67 Pharmacy
*70 O'Connor
*72 Pape
*73 Royal York
*74 Mt Pleasant
*75 Sherbourne
*76 Royal York South
*79 Scarlett Rd
*81 Thorncliffe Park
*82 Rosedale
*84 Sheppard West
*85 Sheppard East
*86 Scarborough
*87 Cosburn
*88 South Leaside
*91 Woodbine
*92 Woodbine South
*94 Wellesley
*96 Wilson
*97 Yonge
*98 Willowdale-Senlac
*99 Arrow Rd
*100 Flemingdon Park
*101 Parc Downsview Park (seasonal)
*103 Mt Pleasant North
*105 Dufferin North
*106 York University
*108 Downsview
*109 Ranee
*110 Islington South
*111 East Mall
*112 West Mall
*113 Danforth
*116 Morningside
*120 Calvington
*122 Graydon Hall
*123 Shorncliffe
*124 Sunnybrook
*125 Drewry
*127 Davenport
*129 McCowan North
*130 Middlefield
*131 Nugget
*132 Milner
*133 Neilson
*134 Progress
*135 Gerrard
*161 Rogers Rd
*162 Lawrence-Donway
*165 Weston Rd North
*167 Pharmacy North
*172 Cherry Street
*190 Scarborough Ctr Rocket
*191 Highway 27 Rocket
*192 Airport Rocket
*193 Exhibition Rocket (seasonal)
*400 Lawrence Manor
*402 Parkdale
*403 South Don Mills
*404 East York
*405 Etobicoke

The following night bus routes are accessible:

*300 Bloor-Danforth
*302 Danforth Road-McCowan
*303 Don Mills (north of Danforth only)
*305 Eglinton East
*307 Eglinton West
*308 Finch East
*309 Finch West
*310 Bathurst (north of Bloor only)
*311 Islington
*313 Jane (north of Bloor only)
*316 Ossington
*319 Wilson
*320 Yonge
*329 Dufferin
*353 Steeles East
*354 Lawrence East
*385 Sheppard East

treetcars

The TTC streetcar system is not accessible, as its CLRV and ALRV streetcars are high-floor. However, it is planned that the streetcar fleet will gradually be replaced with modern, low-floor vehicles which will be wheelchair accessible.

Visually Impaired

Service animals are allowed on the TTC during all hours of operation, but must be kept under control at all times. All stations have yellow warning strips with bumps at the edge of the platforms. All buses and streetcars have both; automated visual and audible stop announcements, while the subway trains only have audible automated stop announcements. In October 2007, the Ontario Human Rights Commission announced that all public transit operators across Ontario are expected to start calling out all stops.

Wheel-Trans

The TTC provides Wheel-Trans, a door-to-door accessible transit service, to people who are unable to use the conventional transit system. In many cases, Wheel-Trans buses connect with accessible subway stations.

External links

* [http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/accessible.htm TTC accessible service]