April 14, 2006

Boston T To Spend $300 Millon on Access

From The Boston Globe's April 4 story on the settlement of a class-action suit filed by the Boston Center for Independent Living and other groups:

The agreement calls for upgrading elevators and escalators, speeding the purchase of low-floor buses, replacing unreliable mobile wheelchair lifts on subway and trolley platforms, accelerating a new $23 million public address system, training MBTA employees with the help of disabled riders, and creating an assistant general manager for accessibility who will answer directly to the T's general manager. (Read T agrees to spend $310m on accessibility - The Boston Globe)

Posted on April 14, 2006