People with disabilities face greater accessibility challenges in rural & Northern communities
People with disabilities living in rural areas of Canada, such as Northern B.C., face much greater barriers to accessibility and accessible transportation, Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley and NDP Transportation Critic, said on March 29.
This stems from different avenues, he said, citing airplane sizes flying into Northern communities are much smaller, train stations are less modern and more inclement weather all make barriers more acute. However, he said from his time as mayor of Smithers, he knows there is a lot of work to be done in northern communities to make them universally accessible.“Because the infrastructure budgets in smaller rural communities are very constrained, a lot of that work is not moving at the pace that it needs to move to ensure that people living with disabilities can benefit from universal accessibility.
The transportation critic said this is extremely concerning because the managers are the ones charged with resolving issues when they arise and ensuring the frontline staff are fulfilling the requirements of the legislation.The MP said the Auditor General’s report listed two recommendations, one being about website content and the other about increasing the capacity of the Canadian Transportation Industry to understand and identify accessibility barriers in transportation.
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