The City of Winnipeg is committed to improving the accessibility of our transit system. One aspect of this involved establishing designated priority seating areas on conventional buses.
To better understand the needs of transit users and develop processes that recognize the needs of transit users with disabilities, the City asked for feedback through a survey and discussion forum. Your feedback, along with a jurisdictional scan and Winnipeg Transit data were used to make recommendations for the future of priority space on Transit buses and a Council approvedContinue reading
The City of Winnipeg is committed to improving the accessibility of our transit system. One aspect of this involved establishing designated priority seating areas on conventional buses.
To better understand the needs of transit users and develop processes that recognize the needs of transit users with disabilities, the City asked for feedback through a survey and discussion forum. Your feedback, along with a jurisdictional scan and Winnipeg Transit data were used to make recommendations for the future of priority space on Transit buses and a Council approved Priority and Courtesy Seating Area Policy.
Issues with first-come, first-served priority seating:
Winnipeg Transit experiences high volumes of transit riders at different points in the day and this leads to crowded buses and ‘pass-ups’ (when riders waiting are passed because the bus is too full to accommodate them).
There are challenges with pass-ups for all transit riders and that is why the City is working on a Transit Master Plan that proposes a high frequency network.
Accessible spaces (seats at the front of the bus where the benches flip up) on transit buses are limited and there is currently a ‘first come, first served’ approach.
A first-come, first-served approach to priority space is not aligned with the Accessibility For Manitobans Act transportation standard.
Transit Priority Seating Review has finished this stage
Jurisdictional scan and data collection: May – August 2020
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Public engagement: August 18 – September 15, 2020
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Public Engagement Summary posted: October 2020
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Report to Council: December 2020
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Policy Implementation: Fall 2022
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