Accessibility
Non-Functioning FOB VT Irks Residents of Large Indian City
Non-functioning vertical-transportation (VT) equipment serving foot overbridges (FoBs) in Hyderabad, the capital and largest city in the Indian state of Telangana, is creating problems for residents, particularly students and the...
Elevator Installed in NY Art Center 13 Years After Shaft
A new elevator is being installed in the Putnam Arts Council's Belle Levine Art Center, which is housed in a renovated 1800s barn, in Mahopac, NY, Patch.com reports. The two-story...
Study: NYC VT Maintained by Outside Contractors Less Reliable
A study conducted by the office of New York City Councilman Keith Powers covering January found that Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) vertical-transportation (VT) equipment maintained by outside contractors is less...
Elevator Shafts for New WDW Vacation Property Take Shape
Vertical construction of the new Disney Vacation Club (DVC) wing at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort at the Walt Disney World (WDW) Resort in Orlando, Florida, continues with elevator shafts taking...
UW Elevator Vandalism Causes Issues
Throughout January, the elevators connecting Odegaard Undergraduate Library to the underground parking garage at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle were repeatedly vandalized, causing them to close for extended...
Schindler Provides 61-Unit VT System for New Grand Madison Station
Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a vertical-transportation (VT) system that includes 41 escalators and 20 elevators for the new Grand Central Madison subway station in NYC, providing, according to...
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...
