This note is from our allies at the Mimico Residents Association, the community just east of Sam Smith Park.
Note the wheelchair using disabled commuter in the billboard beside the stairs at the Mimico GO station.
Metrolinx “Staying Safe Keeps Us All On Track - Safety is teamwork." Campaign Poster next to stairs, the only path to GO trains at Mimico GO Station. The poster shows a wheelchair user who would not be able to use transit at this station.
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.
2025 vs 2016, 9 years and no tunnel with elevators from the Blue Goose to the north side.
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.
Stairs needed to get from platform into the bridge at Exhibition GO. How often are elevators out of service? The south side of the tracks at Mimico GO is already below grade (even more stairs will be needed to get into the bridge)
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.
AODA “purpose of this Act”
Mimico GO's bridge, 15 years apart: GO Transit's 2011 overhead-bridge option and the bridge Metrolinx showed residents in 2026. Renderings: GO Transit (2011) and Metrolinx, May 13, 2026.
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.”
Metrolinx Design Standard DS-04, showing shorter, more direct routes via a tunnel.
Mimico GO sits between two large seniors’ residences in a neighbourhood filling up with young families, strollers and wagons.
.
