MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, Building and Improvement President Jamie Torres-Springer and Chief Accessibility Officer Quemuel Arroyo announce the subsequent 12 subway stations that may obtain ADA upgrades throughout a press convention on the Franklin Av-Medgar Evers School Station on the two/3/4/5 strains on Tuesday, Jul 22, 2025.
Photograph by Marc A. Hermann / MTA
MTA’s biggest enlargement of the previous couple of years has been the vertical type because of our formidable subway accessibility agenda. July is Incapacity Pleasure Month, however on the MTA accessibility is a year-round precedence. And with the newest announcement of further ADA stations focused for upgrades, we’re on observe to make greater than half of the subway system totally accessible at stations serving 70% of riders.
Look out for initiatives coming quickly at:
63 Dr-Rego Park (M/R) in Queens
190 St (A) in Manhattan
Bedford-Nostrand Avs. (G) in Brooklyn
Botanic Backyard (S) within the Bronx
Cathedral Pkwy-110 St (1) in Manhattan
Eastchester-Dyre Av (5) within the Bronx
Fordham Rd (B/D) within the Bronx
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers School (2/3/4/5) in Brooklyn
Grand Military Plaza (2/3) in Brooklyn
Grand Av-Newtown (M/R) in Queens
Woodlawn (4) within the Bronx
They’ll be funded as a part of the 2025-29 MTA Capital Plan, which incorporates ADA upgrades at greater than 60 stations in complete, in addition to 45 elevator replacements. We’re investing virtually $7 billion general to construct on the unimaginable progress we’ve remodeled the previous couple of years.
The MTA is including new accessible stations to the map 5 occasions sooner than earlier management, and we’re pleased with the numbers. Since 2020, new elevators have been put in at 36 stations — double the variety of ADA stations accomplished in simply the prior six years. One other 35 are presently underneath building, and congestion pricing revenues will fund upgrades at nonetheless one other 25 areas. By the point we end the 2025-29 Capital Plan, we’ll be taking a look at 271+ totally accessible stations systemwide. That’s 236% of what existed proper earlier than the COVID pandemic!
And now we have no intention of slowing down. Accessibility is a proper, and it serves among the most economically challenged populations in our metropolis – seniors, many residing on fastened incomes; dad and mom and caretakers with children in strollers, who face struggles with the price of residing; and, most of all, individuals with disabilities.
These of us – like everyone! – need to make the most of our nice mass transit system. In spite of everything, public transportation is among the few issues that makes New York reasonably priced, at simply 15% the price of proudly owning a automotive. By increasing entry to the subway, we’re actually increasing alternatives throughout your entire metropolitan area for thousands and thousands of individuals and their households.
Janno Lieber is MTA chair and CEO.
