The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has agreed to more clearly alert the public when elevators are out of service within its vast subway system, which, along with the in-service rate for system lifts reaching nearly 98%, marks the end of a nearly decade-long battle that followed disabled New Yorkers suing the MTA in federal court over alleged shoddy upkeep of subway elevators, The City Reporter is among outlets to report. The latest truce, which still must be signed off on by U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels, was announced during the MTA’s board meeting on July 29. Currently, 161 MTA subway stations are accessible, up from 112 with the lawsuit was filed in 2017. The MTA has committed to spending more than US$7 billion on station accessibility as part of its 2025-29 Capital Plan. “As availability has improved, the issues in that dispute narrowed,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said. “We were able to find common ground with our disability activist colleagues, partly by MTA promising to continue doing a lot of what we’re doing already.”