Accessibility
Amtrak’s Penn Station Entrance Transformation Includes VT
Amtrak hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 19 for the newly transformed Penn Station entrance at 7th Avenue and 32nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. Penn Station's busiest entrance, the revamped...
Schindler VT Equipment for Development That Includes New Bratislava Landmark
Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided vertical-transportation (VT) equipment for Eurovea City, a mixed-use master-planned development on the Danube River in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava that includes Slovakia's tallest...
KONE Providing 51 Elevators and More to New Development in Hangzhou
KONE has been tapped to provide a range of People Flow® solutions, including 51 MiniSpaceTM and 12 MonoSpace® elevators, to Zhejiang University Alumni Headquarters Economic Park in Hangzhou, East China,...
Access To Showcase Stairlift Solutions at OT Show 2023
Access, one of the U.K.’s leading suppliers of stairlifts, home lifts and platform lifts, will be showcasing working models from its range of stairlifts on stand G51 at this year’s...
Elevators Closed in Pakistan Government Building
Elevators at the Shaheed-e-Millat Secretariat, which houses several government offices in Islamabad, have been closed by the Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD), The News reports. The PWD says the lifts...
Voted World’s Best Airport, Singapore Changi Airport Opens T2
Voted the World’s Best Airport in the 2023 Skytrax Airport Awards, Singapore’s Changi Airport has fully reopened Terminal 2 (T2) following a 3.5 year, 21,000-m2 expansion, CNN reports. Like other...
Elevator Work Almost Complete at South Dakota Museum
The Codington County Heritage Museum in downtown Watertown, South Dakota, is on its way to becoming more accessible with the installation of an outdoor, glass elevator, KXLG reports. Since 1975,...
Pollock Lifts Signs Distribution Agreement for U.S. Growth
U.K.-based Pollock Lifts announced it has secured a distribution agreement with market leader Bruno Independent Living Aids in the U.S. The newly inaugurated dealership with Bruno, located in Ocanomowac, Wisconsin,...
GT Awarded 15-Elevator Contract in Vancouver With Fujitec Canada
Global Tardif Elevator Manufacturing Group (GT) recently announced it has been awarded a contract for 15 panoramic machine-room-less elevators for the Broadway-City Hall Station in Vancouver, Canada. The station is...
Modern Elevator Installs Three New Elevators at Brooklyn MTA Station
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) tells ELEVATOR WORLD Modern Elevator installed three new elevators at the Flushing Avenue subway station in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. The units replaced...
