NEW YORK — To some, the prospect of adding new subway elevators not far from the World Trade Center is a godsend, a desperately needed portal for the disabled to a subway system that is among the ...
Dozens of advocates for accessibility in transit rallied outside MTA headquarters in Lower Manhattan on Monday as part of their ongoing push for better subway elevator maintenance. The protest, led by ...
MTA officials need to prioritize fixes to broken-down subway elevators — and New York’s Legislature needs to commit more money to the problem, disability advocates said Wednesday. “When we try to use ...
An MTA plan to reassign elevator operators at upper Manhattan subway stations raises issues of public safety, labor unions and elected officials said at a rally Thursday. The MTA employees who work ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s indefinite pause on congestion pricing has prompted the MTA to halt its plans to install elevators at more than 20 subway stations, including one in Midtown where a mother ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- There was a strong warning, but no ruling Tuesday in a class action lawsuit filed against the MTA over the lack of elevators in the subway system. The judge ruled to delay a ...
Commuters in the Bronx’s Longwood and Mott Haven neighborhoods will have an easier time using the subway with help from new elevators and other improvements at the No. 6 station at 149th St. The ...
Riders and advocates say broken elevators and transit barriers continue to disrupt TTC riders with disabilities.
The MTA will install two elevators at the 14th Street and Seventh Avenue subway station to serve riders of the 1, 2 and 3 lines, expanding its existing commitment to build elevators at the connected ...