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Enabling the disabled with accessible vehicles
The Green Highway should be open to all and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is going to require massive changes in making transportation services accessible. This includes public transit and taxis. One in seven people in Ontario has a disability, according to the provincial government and that number will rise as the population ages...
MEDIchair Ontario and Kino Mobility Announce Merger · May 31, 2011
MEDIchair Ontario (http://www.medichair.com) and Creative Accessible Vehicles are excited to announce they purchased Kino Mobility's Toronto and London locations. The Kino Mobility branches will become part of the MEDIchair brand as of June 1, 2011...
Grande Family Makes Accessible Vehicles Their Priority, YorkRegion.com May 9, 2011
There's redesigned to be accessible and then there's built to be accessible. That's the motto behind the MV-1, the mobile vehicle designed, in part, by a Holland Landing family...
MV-1 Launch, Snap Newmarket, April 13, 2011
East Gwillibury Mayor Virginia Hackson along with Councillors John Eaton & Tara Roy Climente congratulated Nick & Peter Grande on the launch of the MV-1. Both Nick & Peter have served as volunteers on East Gwillimbury's Accessibility Advisory Committee...
MV-1 2010 da Vinci Award Winner and VPG CEO Dave Schembri, da Vinci Awards, Jan 27, 2011
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MV-1 Chosen 2010 da Vinci Award Winner for Transportation and Mobility
MV-1 - The only purpose-built vehicle designed from the ground up for wheelchair accessibility. The MV-1 is also the only vehicle in its class with an available Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)...