Beaubien metro station not wheel chair friendly

Three handicapped people attempted to access the metro system at the Beaubien station. They failed and did not get past the ticket counter as there were no elevators or wheel chair friendly ramps.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Beaubien
• metro station
• wheel chair
• access
• handicapped
• Montreal Gazette
• Allen McInnis

[frankk323]

il ya les transport adapté de la stm en bus

[MrTransitfan]

If you still dont like their paratrasit service, THEN TAKE A DAMN WHEELCHAIR ACCESIBLE TAXI! The public doset want to hear about your miserable issues because we know that 85% of the public transportation service IS accesible. You dont like it, DONT USE IT AND COMPLAIN ABOUT IT ;)

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[MrTransitfan]

Excuse my language but are you stupid? You get out of a wheelchair friendly TAXI. The STM provides over 1500 ACCESIBLE BUESES (as MrMontreal66 stated) and you dont bother using them. You'd rather go and complain to the media about your miserable issues about society and it not being wheelchair friendly. If you were really smart, you MA'AM would go and use the STM's DOOR TO FREAKIN DOOR PARATRANSIT SERVICE.

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[MysticMTL]

@AntoDamicoShow I noticed something else as well. They got out of a wheelchair accessible taxi. You know that they could have saved their money and used the STM accessible transport, for the price of a bus fare, or go to a street corner and board one of the close to 2000 accessible buses in their fleet.

[AntoDamicoShow]

Where did she get the number 71 from?

[MysticMTL]

Montreal transit fares are increasing all the time now. If the metro were to become 100% accessible, passengers would be required to pay $10-20 per ride to cover the hundreds of millions of dollars to adapt them. I am not against the prospect of having an accessible metro system, but it was never designed as such, and it is not required by law to provide an accessible metro. The STM is doing this in good faith, progress takes time. While you wait though, the entire bus fleet is now accessible.

[MrMontreal66]

Since the arrival of elevators in the metro, I have yet to see one person take the metro using a wheelchair. Use the services that are available, which are Door to Door service and the fleet of over 1500 buses that are accessible...

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[MrMontreal66]

The crusade for accessibility of the metro is getting ridiculous. There is a fleet of over 1500 buses that have access to ramps, a fleet of almost 500 minibuses providing DOOR TO DOOR service. It costs a lot to incorporate an elevator into an old structure, it takes a lot of studies and such.

I am not against the idea but, I am tired of hearing the stations aren't accessible.

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[I8leftwingers]

HEY les roulettes, les nerfs sacrament! Ca coute chère en Ta pour les modofications et cette société est toujours dans le trou. Ils ont commencé mais ca va être long, en attendant, prend ton trou, on n'a pas tous ce que l'on veut dans la vie!

[I8leftwingers]

@Buzzybros parce que ca viens d'un media anglophone