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| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
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| Iszkula, Robert |
Yes |
Our city has a long way to go and I will work toward allocating budgets to ensure that people of all abilities have complete freedom of mobility here. Our buses are accessible, but getting to the bus stop is difficult. I support an increase in sidewalk widths - currently two people walking cannot pass without turning sideways in most areas. I also want to see a new standard in driveway ramps so that they do not take up most of the waking area with a slanted section making it difficult for mobility devices, strollers, and even pedestrians walking - especially in winter. |
| Whitehead, Terry |
Yes |
The city of Hamilton currently has a strategy to come into full compliance with the AODA standards by 2025. Some of these investments are major and we clearly need provincial financial assistance to accommodate. AMO (association of municipalities of Ontario) has taken a strong position that to accommodate the provincial legislation, the province should be providing dollars to assist municipalities to meet these targets. |
| Wilson, Bryan |
Yes |
We definitely need to be more accessible as a whole in this city. We need to make sure that when building or rebuilding our infrastructure that we don't centre it so much around the automobile in the future and actually think of people who live there and want to be there not just drive through the neighbourhood. We can build as a person centric city and still have roads that aren't always backed up we just need to have more vision and willingness to do so. |
