MTA agrees to make bulk of New York City subway stations accessible by 2055

MTA Accessibility chief Quemuel Arroyo exits a new elevator, onto the subway levelAn overwhelming majority of subway stations in New York City will be made accessible by 2055 under a new settlement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

“I say that we live everywhere and we go everywhere,” said Jean Ryan, a president of Disabled In Action who uses a wheelchair and is one of the plaintiffs involved in the settlement. “That’s why we need the entire system. And right now, the system is not very workable.”According to the state-run MTA, the deal aims to make 81 stations accessible by 2025. It will add 85 more accessible stations 10 years later, in 2035, and transform another 90 by 2055.

“If we’re down on the platform and we can’t get out then we either have to go to some other station or we have to call 911 or the fire department and be carried out,” Ryan said. “My chair weighs 398 pounds — without me — so I don’t know how they would rescue me.”

Yup

2055. The settlment calls for subway stations to be accessible by 2055. NYC will be underwater by then.

'And they'll have to wait 33 more years.' Don't bury the lede.

NYC subway system is too hospitable to hobos.

😂😂😂 Go ahead and put your trust in the crooked MTA!!

The current elevators all smell like urine.

This is depressing on multiple levels

The city will be underwater by 2055 but hey

Are the subways still going to be running with 1930s switches then too?

30 more years. And yet they’re announcing this as if it’s an achievement. MTA is the most corrupt government institution since the PANYNJ.

Only to be inoperable within a year or so due to constant urination!!!

The West 4th Street escaltor breaks down regularly for over at least a decade. I don't have high hopes 🤨

This will cost approximately three times the Apollo Program's budget I'm sure

I’ll be dead by then, but better late than never!

I'm so happy my toddler will be able to easily access the system with when she has to go out with HER child in a stroller in 30 years...

What a joke

What's the promised completion date for the 2nd Ave subway planned in 1939?

2055! I would hope by then I don’t need to rely on subways

there’s not going to be a 2055 LOL

Bout fkn time.

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