As part of their initiative to work toward a more progressive and universally accessible metropolis, the City of Montreal held a mid-term event for their universal accessibility project. The Plante Administration is looking for the city to be more universally accessible and for people to be able to carry out their activities without limitations or barriers.

The project, which was first started in 2020, aims to make Montreal more accessible for everyone, regardless of abilities. The administration wants to adapt urbanism, infrastructures, communication, culture, sports/leisure activities, and employment amongst many other things, to be more accessible. 

To improve their current system and approach, the city invited guests and citizens to partake in the event. The project was developed in collaboration with Montrealers with physical disabilities and limited mobility, and was planned in a four years timeframe. 

During the mid-term event, the city representatives presented their aspirations for the project, what they intend to do in the next two years, as well as what was completed in the past two. 

For the past two years, the city put into place two committees to help with their quest of making Montreal more universally accessible, one for technical purposes, and the other one for monitoring and follow-ups. Both committees consist of Montrealers with limited mobility, organizations and specialists on the matter of universal accessibility. The committees purpose is to identify the challenges and issues that make the city less universally accessible in order to be able to have the best individuals and groups' opinions and recommendations on the necessary adjustments and changes that should be made.

For the next two years, the city of Montreal's objectives will be to dedicate themselves to the implementation of the recommendations made by the two committees, but more specifically the concluded recommendations from the activity analyses conducted during the first few years of the project.