"The governor's June 5 pause of the Manhattan tolling scheme put $16.5 billion of mass transit capital improvements on ice, including $2 billion that would have built elevators and other accessibility upgrades at 23 subway stations."
"Abled-bodied people would be disgusted with waiting for an essential right needed for day-to-day life, said Dr. Sharon McLennon Wier, executive director of the Center for the Independence of the Disabled NY (CIDNY)."
"The new suit accuses the MTA of violating the New York City Human Rights Law by cutting funding for new elevators and other accessibility upgrades as it triaged the current capital plan to cut $16.5 billion."
"In deferring $16.5 billion in capital improvements, the MTA declared accessibility was a lower priority investment, prompting the advocacy groups to file a lawsuit to reinstate the congestion pricing funding."
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