据多家媒体包括纽约时报报道，在纽约大都会运输局在地铁翻新工程中，残障人士权利团体根据1990年通过的美国残障人士法案，指出了40项缺少配备电梯或其他通行设施的更新工程，并向法院提起了诉讼。根据残障人权促进会总负责人Michelle Caiola的说法，这次的诉讼比之前在布朗克斯区米德尔顿路站的那次关注的点要更大，而那次案件判定运输局必须在地铁升级工程中考虑设置电梯。Michelle Caiola 说到，“运输局的做法说明其不但只在米德尔顿路地铁站违法了残障人士法案，更是在整个地铁系统中这样做了很多年”。而运输局发言人表示当局“尽管还有一段很长的路要走，但是目前确实是正在全力完善地铁系统，争取让每一位纽约人都能充分使用”。

　　LACK OF ELEVATORS PROMPTS ANOTHER LAWSUIT AGAINST NYC MTA

　　Disability rights groups cited 40 major NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) subway renovations that lack elevators or other accessible features since the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990 as part of a lawsuit filed on May 15, New York Daily News is among news outlets to report. According to Disability Rights Advocates Managing Director Michelle Caiola, the suit broadens the point of an earlier one involving the Middletown Road Station in the Bronx, in which a judge ruled that elevators must be part of MTA station upgrades. “What this does is say the MTA did not just violate the ADA at Middletown Road, but they’ve been doing it for years across the system,” she says. An MTA spokesman says the authority “has a long way to go but [is] fully committed to making the system one that can be used by all New Yorkers.”