MTA plans to add elevators at 12 more NYC subway stations

A dozen metro stations are newly planned for improving accessibility, public transport officials announced on Tuesday.
The stations, selected in concert with public feedback surveys, cover four districts.
“It is an open government, it is a good government,” MTA president Janno Lieber said on Tuesday at a press conference outside the Franklin Ave. – Medgar Evers College Stop on lines n ° 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Crown Heights – One of the stations on the list.
“We have made a promise to the defenders, many of whom are here today, when we have come to this historic agreement adjusting the longtime dispute on Ada and the metros,” added Lieber. It referred to the MTA agreement in 2022 to make 95% of the city’s 472 metro stations accessible to wheelchair runners and other mobility devices in order to pay a pair of prosecution
“We are determined to deliver,” said Lieber.
In addition to avenue Franklin, elevators will be added to the stop of the adjacent botanical gardens on the shuttle of avenue Franklin, the oldest line of the system. Brooklynites will also obtain elevators at the Grand Army Plaza station nearby for trains n ° 2 and 3, as well as the 53rd St. Station on the R.
In the Bronx, the Woodlawn stop on line n ° 4 and the Eastchester – Dyer Ave. Stop on n ° 5 will obtain elevators, just like the Fordham RD. Station on lines B and D.
Queens runners will have elevators in two m and r stations – Grand Ave. – Newtown and 63rd Drive – Rego Park.
The Manhattanites will see new elevators installed in 190th St. on train A and the parkway of the cathedral – 110th St. on n ° 1.
The elevator projects announced on Tuesday are still in the planning phase. Jamie Torres-Springer, MTA construction and development head, said the projects would be grouped according to the metro line before being subcontracted, but had no firm calendar when it comes to starting.
The MTA has planned 60 new metro stations accessible in its 2025-2029 capital project plan.
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