>As far as I am aware, all bus routes have to be wheelchair accessible by law.
Unfortunately the law in different countries is not the same. Locally it is not a legal requirement but the province gives partial funding to accessible buses. Cheerio John On 21 September 2017 at 03:17, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > As far as I am aware, all bus routes have to be wheelchair accessible by > law. > > They certainly all use low floor kneeling buses locally. > > Phil > > On 21 September 2017 06:22:06 BST, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> On 2017-09-20 23:10, john whelan wrote: >> >>> I was at a presentation yesterday evening about accessibility, well it >>> was free coffee what more can I say? >>> >>> All Ottawa buses have two spaces for wheelchairs. We map wheelchair >>> accessible toilets and other things for the map but we currently as >>> far as I am aware we don't include information on things that move. >>> >>> Should we and how would you do it? >>> >>> For example I understand in the UK there are problems at many railway >>> stations. Perhaps mapping railway stations as being wheelchair >>> accessible or not would be a start. >>> >> >> Bus routes (public transport routes in general) get mapped with >> weelchair=yes. Totally acceptable to do so to signify that the route is >> accesible with a wheelchair. >> E.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4257112 >> I would map public transport nodes and ways (the platform and >> stop_position) with wheelchair too. >> >> Maarten >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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