Even with the new funding, there will still be dozens of stations that aren't fully accessible to people with disabilities.
A man walks toward the ramp at the CTA Blue Line Pulaski station on Dec. 9, 2020, in Chicago.
The largest award for the city will be $118.5 million, for the CTA to modernize its Irving Park, Belmont and Pulaski stations to be fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those stops were built more than 50 years ago and are among 42 CTA stations that are not ADA-compliant, but the construction projects envisioned for those three include elevators, ramp upgrades and improved signs.
The new grants — a total of 15 in nine states — must be used for improving inaccessible rail facilities that were built before the 1990 signing of the ADA, which largely allowed older buildings without accommodations to be grandfathered in if they predated the law. More than 900 such legacy stations remain inaccessible today, the federal government estimates.
Duckworth, who lost her legs in a combat helicopter crash in Iraq, said that lack of progress is abysmal.
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