Disability advocates packed the MTA board room to call out the authority’s piss-poor record on elevator maintenance.The cost of the MTA’s new OMNY fare payment system continues to increase, while the official end of the MetroCard continues to be pushed back.Jose Martinez digs into the many potential paths for the MTA’s fiscal crunch as Albany’s wraps up its budget season.DOT is adding more dedicated carshare parking spots, as previously reported by Streetsblog’s Julianne Cuba.The Daily News dove into all the ways the MTA is working to stop “track intruders.” “Nonetheless, we are going to pilot this at multiple stations and this spring will be releasing the RFP.”
“For the remainder, it will be very costly,” he continued. There’s also a problem of misaligned door configurations, until we’ve completed our fleet standardization over the next decade, that make a significant number of our stations infeasible for platform screen doors.” It includes narrow platforms that cannot accommodate barriers while retaining ADA access … and elevated platforms that can’t support the added weight. This is not the solution for the New York City subway system given its age and conditions. “T here are significant constraints that would prevent a systemw ide rollout of platform screen doors. “W e will be piloting platform screen doors,” Torres-Springer said - before running through a litany of reasons he might like to do the opposite. MTA Construction and Development President Jamie Torres-Springer suggested the concept may be “infeasible” at most subway stations, and costly at the rest, as he announced the forthcoming RFP at Wednesday’s MTA board meeting.
Yes, the MTA may have to be dragged kicking and screaming to accept the technology, which officials have steered clear of despite potential benefits for station climate and keeping tracks clear of trash and other “intrusions.” It’s finally happening: MTA officials will put out a request for proposals late this spring for possible platform barrier designs - whether they like it or not.
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