Nearly 10% of Metropolitan Transportation Authority elevators are out of service at any given time, according to a new report from the City Council.
The report, from the Council’s Policy Task Force, found that on average, 34 of the MTA’s 353 subway elevators — imperative infrastructure for people with disabilities to access mass transit — are out of service at any given time, according to an analysis of the MTA’s elevator performance dashboard. That totals 9.6% of all the MTA’s elevators — which are already only present at about a quarter of stations, leaving most of the system inaccessible as is.
