8 years ago Ontario removed the Mimico GO Accessibility Tunnel with elevators from the procurement that is currently building a tunnel in Long Branch.
If you can’t climb these stairs you can’t use transit at Mimico GO.
Metrolinx won’t share when they expect our station to be usable by wheelchair users.
Ontario’s Minister of Transportation, Prabmeet Sarkaria, announced to have awarded a contract to guide the design of a tunnel in May 2025.
By May 2026 Metrolinx had swapped Mimico’s tunnel for a pedestrian bridge that takes riders several storeys up and over the tracks.
For 10 years the MRA has been consistently asking Metrolinx for barrier-free access to transit in Mimico. Details in “A Tale of Three Stations”
Mimico is the last GO station in Ontario that isn’t compliant with AODA and has no accessibility work under construction. Long Branch is under construction.
Metrolinx’s own GO Station Architecture Design Standard says it plainly:
“…tunnels provide shorter, more direct routes with less vertical travel, making them quicker and more accessible.”
Mimico GO sits between two large seniors’ residences in a neighbourhood filling up with young families, strollers and wagons.
We need to hear from you!
If you can’t take the GO train at Mimico because of the lack of barrier-free access, please contact us this week. Just click here to send us an email and we will get back to you.
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Transparency and Accountability
The Metrolinx website for Mimico is in bad shape and no one seems to be responsible for fixing it:
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The Community Documents page was deleted and the link is now broken.
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The interactive map has been broken for months.
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The page still mentions a new tunnel, further confusing people what to expect.
We asked the Metrolinx Board for ridership data at Mimico GO
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Ridership data was made available until 2022 in the Metrolinx Open Data Portal. It’s important data for planning new business investments around stations to have this data available. We were interested in it to see how the work in the tunnel affected ridership.
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The Metrolinx board recommended we file a freedom of information (FOI) request.
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A resident volunteered to file the FOI and pay for it. They paid the $5 filing fee in July, patiently waited and more recently paid a $60 fee for access to the data. We will share the findings soon.
What else?
Thanks & see you by the lake, Mimico!