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Greenpoint Ave gets new elevators
The new elevators at Greenpoint Avenue Station. MTA
BY BEN VERDE
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
offi cials unveiled three shiny
new elevators at the Greenpoint Avenue
G line station on Thursday — the second
elevator ever installed on the G line.
The newly accessible station, which
took 29 months to complete at a cost of
$23.4 Million, comes as the state-run
agency is facing an massive budget crisis
amid an unprecedented revenue
drop, and is pleading with the federal
government to provide desperately
needed cash it needs to keep buses and
trains running and continue making
improvements.
“We need more ADA accessible stations
just like this one, and we are ready
and committed to making an unprecedented
investment in ADA stations,”
said Chief Customer Offi cer Sarah
Meyer during a press conference on
Dec. 10. “But this critically important
work cannot be achieved if the MTA is
forced to make hard choices between operating
the trains and buses, and capital
improvements.”
The authority says it needs a $12 Billion
bailout in order to avert a “doomsday”
situation for transit in New York,
which could include layoffs of thousands
of workers, the elimination of entire bus
and subway lines, and headways of up to
8 minutes.
Accessibility projects would also be
put on hold under a cash-strapped authority
— a fate that could doom the
agency’s goal of bringing elevators to 70
stations in the transit system.
There are currently 133 stations with
elevators throughout the system. 70 new
elevators are planned in the 2020-2024
Capital Plan, most of which are on hold
due to budgetary restraints, except for
those that qualify for other sources of
funding, according to authority spokesman
Shams Tarek.
“The future of accessibility is
hanging in the balance, and we need
federal support,” said MTA board
member Victor Calise, who uses a
wheelchair. “We need creative ways,
we need public-private partnerships,
we need everything.”
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