Posted on 09/20/2019 7:50:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Earlier this year, a Connecticut woman died after she fell trying to carry her 1-year-old daughter in a stroller down a staircase in a New York City subway station.
Nine months later, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has provided us with the answer: It costs $81 million to make a station wheelchair-accessible—between three to 10 times what peer cities pay for the same work. Eighty-one million dollars for an elevator, or perhaps two. It’s a scandalous figure, and one that says as much about the state of American public infrastructure at large as it does about New York. We’re no good at this, and no one seems to care.
Transit-cost sleuth Alon Levy has some comparisons from across the pond, and they are not pretty: Virtually none of our European peers is spending more than $25 million per station on elevators, and many are spending less. Madrid, Spain, is adding three elevators to a metro station for $6 million. Lyon, France, is adding one for $4 million
Committing to spend $81 million to build a couple elevators, you would think, might have been a moment to step back and say: Something is wrong, and we should fix it.
Instead, Cuomo will plow ahead. We’ll get our 66 elevators. We could have had hundreds more.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Such a deal.
Half went to public union pensions.
Fredo’s brother?
How about a few ramps for us mobility-impaired and a railing to hold onto? Set ya back what, a few hundred thou? I don’t need no steekin’ elevator. Hell, once I inevitably graduate to a wheelchair (my doc already wants me to use a walker, but I carry a pimp stick instead), I may get a hair crossways and go full ATV trail on a ramp. Keep your Walmart moon buggies, I want something with off-road tires. *chuckle*
Is NYC exempt from the ADA?
Maybe when DJT is done being president he can run for mayor of NYC and drain that swamp.
And before you know it the elevators smell like urine and/or poop. That’s if they’re not out of order.
Maybe when DJT is done being president he can run for mayor of NYC and drain that swamp.
Is NYC exempt from the ADA?
A very interesting question?
Over twenty tears back, the company I worked for moved to a new building and had to upgrade it to ADA compliant to receive an occupancy permit.
A major project and they had to claim that the second floor was only storage or else an $$$ elevator!
Very much so.
Cuomo reminds me of an ugly mongrel dog chasing cars.
Ever try to build a garage in the city? What's the mystery?
81 million, 80 million to my campaign chest and 1 million for the work of a distant family member
It is public employees in general who are unsustainable longer term. Too many paid too much with crazy-generous pensions doing too little too poorly.
These subway platforms are way underground sometimes.
If folks think it’s bad Downstate, they should take a good look at what’s going on Upstate.
All of which Albany is either ignoring or aiding and abetting.
yeah but the kickbacks.....we gots to pay the kickbacks....
DJT escaped from NY!
How much would a ramp cost? $64 million?
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