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Cost and implementation of elevators and escalators in subway stations
1:07:57
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about the average cost of installing elevators or escalators in subway stations. John McCarthy, Chief of Policy and External Relations at MTA, provides a detailed response on costs and recent innovations.
- The average cost for an elevator package is around $60-80 million
- MTA has developed innovative ways to reduce costs, such as direct-to-platform elevators for elevated stations
- The new approach is both cost-effective and more user-friendly
- MTA is now implementing accessibility improvements 4.5 times faster than 5-6 years ago
Mercedes Narcisse
1:07:57
is the course for elevator or escalator?
Demetrius Crichlow
1:08:00
What's the course?
1:08:01
I'm sorry.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:08:01
Yeah.
1:08:02
Mhmm.
1:08:02
What's the course?
1:08:03
What's average course?
1:08:04
You don't have to be specific.
1:08:05
What's the average course for elevator?
1:08:07
I can an elevator for accessibility.
John McCarthy
1:08:09
Sure.
1:08:10
I can jump in on that.
1:08:11
So the way we do an elevator package, we package it with other work at the station.
1:08:16
The neighborhood of the cost is around 60 to 80,000,000 to go in there, do elevators.
1:08:23
It's lower than it was before.
1:08:25
We've sort of come up with some really new innovative ways of building, including taking some of the stations that are the elevated stations, taking the elevator directly to the platform.
1:08:36
It used to be that we'd build an extra elevator, take you to the mezzanine, and then send you over to the different sides and then go up.
1:08:43
And if someone's say if you're someone who's using a wheelchair or it depends on that elevator, you get to that mezzanine and one of them is not working, that's no fun.
1:08:51
So it's doing two things.
1:08:53
It's customer friendly and it's also saving us money.
1:08:57
So there's always outliers.
1:08:58
Some are less expensive and some are more expensive, but that's generally the neighborhood.
1:09:02
The good news is it's lower than it was and we're cranking these out at four and a half times what we used to do five, six years ago.