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MTA Releases Plan for Subway Station Without Elevator
New York State Sen. Cordell Cleare, chair of the committee on aging, wrote a letter in August calling on Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) chair and CEO Janno Lieber to include...
Odesa Authorities Tender Elevator Maintenance Contracts
Authorities in Odesa, Ukraine, recently held several tenders to select elevator maintenance companies, Intent reports. As long as the company is able to eliminate tender document inconsistencies, Gamayun Lift Limited...
Miami-Dade County Leaders Budget US$20 Million for VT Repairs
Leaders in Miami-Dade County, Florida, have put US$20 million in this year’s proposed budget for repairs to the vertical-transportation (VT) system serving Metrorail and Metromover platforms, CBS News reports. Miami-Dade...
SkyTrain Escalator Project Moves to Second Phase
TransLink is reopening the Millennium Line escalators at Commercial–Broadway SkyTrain Station in Vancouver, Canada, on September 27. On the same day, the second phase of the escalator replacement project will...
Celsius Systems Unveils Air-Operated Vacuum Elevators
Celsius Systems, a pioneer in the elevator industry since 2005, has announced the introduction of its latest innovative technology — Air-Operated Vacuum Elevators. As the sole distributor of the Pneumatic...
TKE Handling Major Cologne Subway Escalator Modernization
TK Elevator (TKE) announced on September 17 it has been awarded a major escalator modernization contract to modernize numerous escalators serving subway stations in Cologne, Germany. The project includes 23...
PPP-Maintained FoBs in Indian City Lack Working Elevators
Bharat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative body responsible for civic amenities in greater Bengaluru, India, has found that many foot overbridges (FOBs) maintained under the public-private partners (PPP) model...
Tashkent Metro Explains High Price of New Escalators
Tashkent Metro in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has provided answers as to why eight new escalators for three metro stations cost UZS10 billion (US$783,961), or UZS1.3 billion (US$101,914) per escalator, UZ Daily...
U.K.-Based Access BDD to Launch New Platform Lift in NA
Following the successful launch of its range of stairlifts in North America in 2021, U.K.-based Access BDD plans to showcase its Supra Linea Platform Lift to the North American market...
Four Detroit High Rises Account for 15% of Elevator Calls
Over the past year, four high rises housing low-income residents accounted for 15% of all emergency calls about broken elevators to the Detroit Fire Department, Outlier Media reports, citing WDIV....
