But it’s not easy for wheelchair users to get around in Manhattan either: there’s only one accessible station on the entire Central Park periphery, and most accessible stations are in lower Manhattan or the Upper East Side. “In Brooklyn, that could be a mile away,” Murray said. There’s also an issue of scale: two stations away in Manhattan is a much shorter distance than two stations away in other boroughs. The idea that, as the MTA states in its Fast Forward plan, “ no rider will be more than two stops away from an accessible station within five years," or by 2024, seems unlikely given that so many stations won’t be accessible by then-and over half of the city’s ADA-compliant stations would continue to be mostly concentrated in Manhattan. At the current pace of 70 stations every five years, it would be more like 2044 when the entire system could be fully accessible. The MTA "would have to be working on this right now at a much larger scale,” said Jessica Murray, a PhD candidate at CUNY who studies the impacts of transportation on people with disabilities. That means to reach the goal of 100% accessibility by 2034, the MTA would need to make around 143 stations ADA accessible for each of the next capital plans (34).
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