Agency Seeks Public Input on How to Best Prioritize Station Accessibility Projects
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today reminded the public it will host an in-person forum seeking public feedback on subway station accessibility investment priorities in the 2025-2029 Capital Plan.
The two-hour in-person forum will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 6:00 p.m., at MTA Headquarters located at 2 Broadway in Downtown Manhattan. It will feature a presentation from MTA Construction and Development as well as a guided discussion and feedback session focusing on systemwide accessibility improvement subway lines, especially those with multiple inaccessible stations.
“I am very excited to hear directly from riders on their accessibility priorities in the 2025-2029 Capital Plan,” said MTA Chief Accessibility Officer Quemuel Arroyo. “Along with the MTA's first-ever accessible station online feedback form, these meetings will help us continue to gather public input, and I look forward to incorporating this feedback as we determine the remaining stations to be made accessible.”
“We are delivering accessibility projects better, faster, and cheaper,” said MTA Construction and Development President Jamie Torres-Springer. “We look forward to engaging our customers on how design and construction innovations like direct-to-platform elevators and bundling will help us keep up our historic pace.”
The MTA’s proposed 2025-2029 Capital Plan includes at least 60 subway stations to be made accessible, with 30 stations already named across all five boroughs. With at least 30 subway stations yet to be determined, the MTA is asking for public feedback to consider along with legislatively mandated criteria and other project feasibility considerations before selecting the remaining stations.
In addition to the upcoming events, earlier this month the MTA launched the first ever public feedback form for MTA riders to submit their accessible subway station priorities, which has already received hundreds of responses. That form is available at mta.info/accessibility/select-stations.
Participants can register for the in-person forum at here.
The $68.4 billion 2025-2029 Capital Plan includes targeted investments to rebuild, improve, and expand the subway system. The plan will enable the MTA to install or replace elevators in more than 60 subway stations, which will make more than half of all subway stations accessible. It will also provide modern fare gates with sensor technology that will make it easier for customers with accessibility needs to use the subway, and thousands of new subway cars, rail cars, and buses with improved accessibility features.
The Capital Plan will also provide frequent and reliable service by putting the system on a path to a state of good repair, with major investments in infrastructure, power, and signals, and take action on climate change, including resilience and sustainability initiatives.