System Wide Accessibility News Today

The inconsistency frustrates riders with disabilities. Boston's transit agency removes snow on its own properties, but individual cities or private owners are responsible for the vast majority of the thousands of bus stops.

“You don’t want to be too rosy but I actually think they can do a better job of highlighting the work they have done.”

Accessibility feels like “20 steps forward, five steps back,” one T rider says.

March 9, 2021 The MBTA Transit Police are looking for four people who allegedly stole armrests from benches at Central Square station in Cambridge. But others, including a social media account said to represent the people who removed them, say the armrests are a form of “hostile architecture” meant to deter homeless people from using the benches to rest. Transit police posted photos of four people accused of taking the armrests, asking the public’s help with identifying them. Members of t...