Transportation
Individuals cannot pursue their personal goals without access to transportation. Since its founding in 1976, CCD has been working to remove obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities from the modes of transportation within federal jurisdiction—air, rail, inter-provincial bus, and marine. CCD seeks the adoption of enforceable accessibility regulations for these modes.
CCD's Transportation Committee monitors the services provided by transportation carriers, contributes to legislative reform, shares knowledge on access with researchers, challenges discriminatory transportation practices in the courts.
Recent Work
March 4, 2010
Dealing with the t-word
January 20, 2010
Regulation of Federal Transportation System for Access
October 15, 2009
Current Issues
More on Transportation
December 4, 2008
CCD Wins Removal of Longstanding Barrier to Mobility and Travel
March 1, 2008
Responding Memorandum of Fact and Law of Joanne Neubauer and the Council of Canadians With Disabilities
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
June 1, 2007
Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada
March 23, 2007
Canadians With Disabilities Celebrate Supreme Court Decision
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.
February 1, 2005
Moving Backwards: Canada's State of Transportation Accessibility in an International Context
CCD undertakes a comparative international analysis of transportation regulatory frameworks and makes recommendations for Canada. Read more.