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Cost and implementation of elevators and escalators in subway stations

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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?

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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.

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So the way we do an elevator package, we package it with other work at the station.

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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.

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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.

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So it's doing two things.

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It's customer friendly and it's also saving us money.

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So there's always outliers.

1:08:58

Some are less expensive and some are more expensive, but that's generally the neighborhood.

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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.

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