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 Cuomos Metropolitan Transportation Authority has provided us with the answer: It costs $81 million to make a station wheelchair-accessiblebetween three to 10 times what peer cities pay for the same work. Eighty-one million dollars for an elevator, or perhaps two. Its a scandalous figure, and one that says as much about the state of American public infrastructure at large as it does about New York. Were 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. Well get our 66 elevators. We could have had hundreds more.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I believe it. I lived in NYC for 13 years and never took a subway elevator. Im originally from Mass, I like your freeper name haha
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