{"id":312398,"date":"2026-08-03T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312398\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:06:38","slug":"mta-pledges-greater-transparency-around-subway-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312398\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA pledges greater transparency around subway elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA says it\u2019s making major changes to improve accessibility for riders who depend on elevators to use the subway.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement settles a long-running class action lawsuit brought by disability advocates, requiring the MTA to provide much more detailed information when elevators are out of service.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sharon McLennon-Wier, executive director of the Center for Independence of the Disabled New York, joined NY1 to discuss the settlement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA says it\u2019s making major changes to improve accessibility for riders who depend on elevators to use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,7777,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-312398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-stephanie-simon","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}