Transportation Dept. Opens Program to Make Public Transit Accessible

Politics|Transportation Dept. Opens Program to Make Public Transit Accessible

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/dot-public-transit-program.html

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Transportation Dept. Opens Program to Make Public Transit Accessible

The initiative, included in last year’s infrastructure law, makes $1.75 billion available for cities to make transit stations more accessible to disabled people.

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Dounia Bendris, left, commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan in 2020. New York has the most transit stations not in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act in the country.Credit…Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

By Stephanie Lai

July 26, 2022

WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation opened a program on Tuesday that allows cities to apply for federal funding to make public transit stations more accessible to disabled people, moving on the anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act to provide access to $1.75 billion to update stations that do not comply with the law.

The program, approved as part of the infrastructure law [...]