Adapted transit users in Montreal told caregivers can no longer accompany them
Global News
As of Monday, caregivers who usually accompany persons with decreased mobility on adapted transport for free will no longer be allowed to due to staffing issues.
Montrealers who use the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) adapted transport are crying foul.
As of Monday, caregivers who usually accompany them on those vehicles for free will no longer be allowed to due to staffing issues.
Entrepreneur Sandra Gualtieri, who lives with her partner, Adam Tryhorn, said she was shocked when she saw the notice on the transit authority’s website over the weekend.
“I thought i was seeing things,” she told Global News from her NDG apartment.
Both she and Tryhorn use the service. They have cerebral palsy and though they live alone, they do need help — sometimes from homecare worker Shelby Johnson — when they go out for medical appointments or grocery shopping –
“I’m going to be the one pushing the cart, physically getting the items they decide on from the shelves, helping them with their credit cards,” Johnson explained.
Now that Johnson or any other caregiver won’t be allowed to accompany them unto the vehicle, Gualtieri and Tryhorn fear they could be stuck at home.
“We can’t do our basic life things — groceries, medical appointments,” Gualtieri pointed out.
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