Suing for Subway Access

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 26, 2017

What's it like getting around the New York City for people with disabilities?  

"There is approximately 20 percent accessibility level," says Michelle Caiola, director of litigation in Disability Rights Advocate’s New York Office. "This is a civil rights issue... in New York City the subway is everything."

Caiola talks about the two class action lawsuits filed Tuesday accusing the MTA of denying access to passengers with disabilities with plaintiffs Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, member of the DRA East Coast advisory board and an engineer at Google and Dustin Jones, board member at the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York (CIDNY).

New York City Subway

 

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