For Disabled Subway Riders, the Biggest Challenge Can Be Getting to the Train – The New York Times

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Gabriela Amari, using a subway elevator, must take a circuitous route to work because the station she lives near is not accessible. Only about a quarter of the subway’s 472 stations have elevators.Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

By James Barron

• July 26, 2018

“We’re cutting it a little close,” Gabriela Amari said as the F train sat in the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn, its doors open, waiting for a train up ahead to move. She was going to the stop after next.

Ms. Amari was 50 minutes into her hourlong commute, a trip of only seven stops — not quite four miles — that always begins with a detour. Instead of a [...]