Accessibility
India’s Elite Elevators Launches New Logo
Elite Elevators, a home elevator company headquartered in Chennai, India, recently unveiled a new brand logo to encapsulate its growth over the past decade. An authorized global partner of TK...
Railway Stations in India to Receive VT Upgrades
Under the Amrit Bharat scheme, a plan to modernize railway stations across India, 15 stations in the Ferozepur rail division will be outfitted with vertical-transportation (VT) equipment including escalators, babushahi...
Broken Escalators and Elevators Plague Seattle Light Rail Stations
In downtown Seattle, out-of-service elevators and escalators are causing issues for riders, Kiro 7 News reports. The latest outage inventory records three broken elevators and seven inoperable escalators across at...
Accessibility at Busy Indian Rail Station Criticized
G plus recently criticized accessibility at the busy Guwahati Railway Station (GRS) in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, observing there are too few lifts and that both lifts and...
Paris Receives Award for Accessibility, Sustainability and Inclusion
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and the Sustainable Transport Award Committee recently named Paris, France, as the winner of the 2023 Sustainable Transport Award (STA). This honor...
AEG Introduces Elevator Reference Guide and Checklist
American Elevator Group (AEG), the largest independent elevator service provider in North America, recently introduced the AEG Elevator Maintenance Guide & Checklist. Geared toward property owners and managers, the document...
NYC MTA: “Deficient” GC Creates Problems for Elevator Project
Forte Construction Corp., a general contractor (GC) the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) describes as “deficient in supplying the contract-required documents to move items to completion” is at least partly...
New Designs for Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment Unveiled
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled the latest designs for its redevelopment of Liverpool Street station in the U.K., giving the public a detailed look at the architecture of the...
Chicago Blue Line Station to Get Elevator
A multi-million-dollar project will bring an elevator and other upgrades to the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago’s Belmont Blue Line station, which locals say has suffered from a lack of accessibility,...
TKE Installing New Elevators at Wichita County Courthouse
By the end of spring, officials in Wichita County, Texas, hope to have three elevators — including two new units — serving the county courthouse in Wichita Falls, as TK...
