(via Disabled Riders Coalition)
The Disabled Riders Coalition is celebrating improvements to an Atlantic Avenue elevator tomorrow. The advocacy group says that three years and $100 million later, an elevator installed in 2004 is finally accessible to folks using wheelchairs or other mobility aids. The MTA widened a the passageway from the Eastern Parkway Express/Lexington Avenue line to the Brooklyn station's elevator. The area between a staircase and support posts was previously too narrow for wheelchairs to pass.
--Marlene Naanes
