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Alex Elegudin- MTA’s First Accessibility Chief-converted

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City announced that it was hiring Alex Elegudin, an attorney, wheelchair user, long-time disability rights advocate and New Mobilityu2019s 2017 Person of the Year, as its first-ever accessibility chief.

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Alex Elegudin- MTA’s First Accessibility Chief-converted

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  1. Alex Elegudin: Named MTA'SFisrt AccessiblityChief

  2. TheMetropolitanTransitAuthorityofNew York City announced that it was hiring Alex Elegudin, an attorney, wheelchair user, long-time disability rights advocate and New Mobility’s 2017 Person of the Year,asitsfirst-everaccessibilitychief.

  3. OfficialTitle With an official title of senior adviser for systemwide accessibility,AlexElegudinwill report directly to the president of New York City Transit, AndyByford.

  4. AlexElegudinistaskedwithimproving theaccessibilityofoneofthelargest public transit systems in the world — with a scope that includes subways, buses, above ground rail, bridges and tunnelsaswellasparatransit.

  5. AlexElegudinacknowledgesthehistoryofinaccessibility within New York’s transit system, “People with disabilities have been left out of the conversation for a longtime,meaningthatthesystemhasalongwaytogo intermsofbeingaccessible,”hesays.

  6. MasterPlan The creation of the position he now fills and a new master plan for the future of MTA, known as “Fast Forward,” assending a strong signal that the MTA is serious about remaking its transit system to properly serve people withdisabilities.

  7. The plan calls for a strategic retrofit of 50 subway stations within five years so that riders are never morethantwostopsfromanaccessiblestation,with an additional 130 accessible stations in the five yearsfollowing.Subwayinfrastructureisthemost- visible and costliest of the accessibility proposals withtheFastForwardplan,butAlexElegudinisalso looking to other changes that can make an immediateimpactforriderswithdisabilities.

  8. Thosethingsincludebettercommunication withthecommunity,gettingtheminvolved in our decision-making processes; operationalthingslikebettertrainingforall MTAstaffonissuesofADAsensitivityand disability etiquette, something we’re already working on; improving real time information on elevator and escalator outages, so that when people arrive at an elevatorthey’renotlookingatabrokenone; improving the way that stations show signageaboutaccessibility,”hesays.

  9. Above the planned specifics though, perhaps the most important long- termcomponentofthecreationofan executive-level accessibility coordinatoristoputtheneedsofthe disabilitycommunityattheforefront ofthediscussionwhentheMTAplans thefutureofNYC’stransitsystem. NYC’s transit system

  10. Voice forthe disability community Ihaveaseatatthetable,”saysAlexElegudin, “and I want to inform myself of what people withdisabilitiesreallyneed,andtheneedsare different for every disability and in different regionsofthecity.Iwanttobethatvoicethat brings everything together and creates a cohesive, unified plan to improve accessibility.”

  11. Reference https://newmobility.com/nyc-transit-accessibility-chief/

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