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Anybody else would have simply walked off the bus. But that wasn’t an option for social worker Terri-Lynn Langdon, a wheelchair user, who found herself stuck on the TTC’s 509 on Queens Quay for about an hour recently.
Langdon became ensnared in a disagreement on the May holiday Monday between another wheelchair rider and a bus driver in an incident she said reflects poorly on the training and supervision of TTC operators and the system’s treatment of riders with disabilities.
Both women got on at Union Station. Langdon was heading home. The other rider, who later said her name was Angie, asked the driver to call the stop for the ferry docks, as she was planning to meet friends for a trip to the island.
When she realized that the driver had not only failed to call the stop but had driven right past it, she moved into the aisle and asked to be let off. Other passengers were allowed to exit the bus onto Queens Quay, which is under construction. But Langdon said the driver refused to deploy the ramp, saying the stops weren’t safe.
He told Angie to move her wheelchair out of the aisle and warned that he would take the bus out of service if she didn’t move back into the accessible area.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...es_to_let_riders_in_wheelchairs_exit_bus.html
Anybody else would have simply walked off the bus. But that wasn’t an option for social worker Terri-Lynn Langdon, a wheelchair user, who found herself stuck on the TTC’s 509 on Queens Quay for about an hour recently.
Langdon became ensnared in a disagreement on the May holiday Monday between another wheelchair rider and a bus driver in an incident she said reflects poorly on the training and supervision of TTC operators and the system’s treatment of riders with disabilities.
Both women got on at Union Station. Langdon was heading home. The other rider, who later said her name was Angie, asked the driver to call the stop for the ferry docks, as she was planning to meet friends for a trip to the island.
When she realized that the driver had not only failed to call the stop but had driven right past it, she moved into the aisle and asked to be let off. Other passengers were allowed to exit the bus onto Queens Quay, which is under construction. But Langdon said the driver refused to deploy the ramp, saying the stops weren’t safe.
He told Angie to move her wheelchair out of the aisle and warned that he would take the bus out of service if she didn’t move back into the accessible area.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...es_to_let_riders_in_wheelchairs_exit_bus.html
