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For disabled travellers in search of adventure, there are a growing number of adrenaline-fueled options
Americans with disabilities spent around $50 billion on travel in 2022 and 2023, according to a report from the Open Doors Organization, an accessible travel non-profit. While there are no specific numbers for adventure trips, the opportunities available are expanding, said Eric Lipp, the Open Doors Organization’s executive director. “Adventure travel is enormous,” he said. “People want to do everything now.”
In 2004, a spinal cord injury from a car accident left Alvaro Silberstein paralyzed from the waist down. When, in 2016, he posted online about traversing 50 miles through Patagonia in a wheelchair, his story went viral. He received hundreds of messages from people asking how they could replicate his trip. Two years later, Silberstein created Wheel the World, a San Francisco-based company focused on accessible travel.
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Pressure Escalates on Metrolinx to Fix Accessibility Problems at New Eglinton Crosstown Transit Line

One week ago, the AODA Alliance made public an 8-minute online video that has now been seen over 1,300 times. It shows that Metrolinx designed the new Chaplin station based on an absurd decision that transit passengers with vision loss only need to know how to reach the station’s elevators, and not the stairs or escalators, when navigating large, irregularly laid-out stations.
This is but one of the troubling accessibility barriers in the design of the Eglinton Crosstown transit stations that hurt transit riders with a range of disabilities. Metrolinx had committed that all these new stations would be accessible.
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