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CTA launches consultation on Accessible Transportation

A disabled woman ready for boarding watches her Caltrain passenger train arrive.

On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) is launching a second phase of consultations on regulatory reform in the area of accessible transportation. These consultations will focus on:

  • How to apply Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations (ATPDR) provisions to small transportation providers – with adjustments to reflect their unique operating realities;
  • Whether or not to apply the One Person, One Fare (1p1f) requirement to international travel and to small transportation providers;
  • What, if anything, to require of transportation providers with respect to Emotional Support Animals and service animals other than dogs; and
  • Planning and reporting frameworks for transportation providers, pursuant to the Accessible Canada Act, which came into force on July 11, 2019.

The CTA is interested in broad input from its Accessibility Advisory Committee, disability community organizations, the transportation industry, and members of the public. Any interested party can consult the CTA’s consultation paper and provide written submissions by email at consultations@otc-cta.gc.ca until February 7, 2020. All submissions will be considered public documents and will be posted on the CTA’s website unless a party asks the CTA not to release certain confidential information. More detailed information on submissions is available in the consultation paper

The proposed regulations will be drafted and pre-published in Canada Gazette I after the consultations have been completed and all input has been considered. There will be an opportunity to review and comment on draft regulations before they are finalized, approved by the CTA and Cabinet, and published in Canada Gazette II. The goal is to have regulations in place by summer 2021.

 

 

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