Toronto Transit Commission accessibility
Accessibility for people with disabilities on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) system is incomplete but improving.
Most of the Toronto subway system was built before wheelchair access was a requirement under the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA).
[2] All TTC trains offer level boarding for customers with wheelchairs and other accessibility needs.
[5] All TTC subway trains – the T series and Toronto Rockets – offer level boarding for customers with wheelchairs and other accessibility needs.
They have priority seating identified in blue, and flip-up benches at designated wheelchair locations in each car.
[10] In September 2023, the TTC noted that some stations would not be completed by the 2025 deadline, and that contingency plans would be put in place.
The TTC's low-floor buses are identified by blue lights located on both sides of the front route display.
In some cases, Wheel-Trans buses connect customers from their homes to accessible subway stations allowing the rider to use the conventional system for a portion of their journey.
The service was created in 1975 as the challenges for people with accessibility needs became more public, and at a time where the entire surface system ran high-floor vehicles which were inaccessible, and subway stations did not have elevators.
[16] An extendable loading ramp for riders using wheelchairs, strollers or other mobility devices is located at the second set of doors of the vehicle.
A passenger can signal the operator to deploy the ramp by pressing the blue accessibility button by the inside or outside of this door.
[20] All stations have yellow warning strips with bumps at the edge of the platforms, and most have tactile floor tiles that assist persons with visual impairments in locating elevators and other accessibility features.
As of 2019, all TTC surface vehicles and subway trains were equipped with this system in compliance with AODA requirements.
