The New York Metro will have five more accessible stations in Brooklyn thanks to the installation of new lifts: the MTA has started the procedure to entrust the work to an enterprise that will take care of the design and construction of the interventions. Neptune Avenue on F, 18 Avenue on D, Jefferson Street on L, Nostrand Avenue on A and C lines, and Fort Hamilton Parkway on D. The project will be funded with the revenues of congestion pricing, the toll introduced for vehicles entering the busiest part of Manhattan, which according to MTA will bring $15 billion to the 2020-2024 investment plan.
In Neptune Avenue there is a new lift, along with a new entrance to the street level and the reconstruction of the edges of the docks. At 18 Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway two lifts will be built for each station, directly from the road to the tracks. Jefferson Street, in Bushwick, will have two lifts and a new staircase between road and dock. The most extensive intervention will be at Nostrand Avenue, a very used express station along Fulton Street, where there are three lifts and a new access building on an area that the MTA must first acquire. Four of the five stations were chosen because they interrupt long stretches without accessible stops; Nostrand Avenue, on the other hand, was inserted for its weight in the network and the commercial district it serves.
As regards the timing, and offers of qualified companies will have to arrive by September 14 and the agency aims to assign the contract by the end of the year. Today the network has 160 fully accessible stations, 45 of which completed by 2020; the plan 2025-2029 provides another $7.1 billion to make accessible over 60 stations and modernize 45 lifts. The biggest milestone, fixed after years of pressure and lawsuits, is reaching 95 percent of the stations accessible by 2055.
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