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New Initiative Enables MTA to Leverage Private Development for Transit Accessibility
The New York City Council has approved Elevate Transit: Zoning for Accessibility, a collaboration between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, City Council, the NYC Department of City Planning and the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities to boost New York City’s push to make its transit system fully accessible.
The initiative will allow the MTA to leverage planned private development to achieve a fully accessible transit system faster, while saving taxpayer dollars as the MTA faces financial challenges caused by the ongoing pandemic. It follows MTA’s funding commitment for 77 accessible subway, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Staten Island Railway station projects within New York City in its Capital Plan.
“Zoning for Accessibility builds on the MTA’s historic $5.2-billion investment in making our transit system more accessible, by using private development to accelerate ADA upgrades,” said MTA acting chair and CEO Janno Lieber.
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