The MTA is pledging to install elevators or ramps in 95% of New York City's currently inaccessible subway stations 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.”
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