Since its disability pride month, let's talk about how wild it is that the ADA isn't considered a major civil rights legislation by most people when it is genuinely one of the most important and meaningful laws of the 20th century alongside things like the Clean Air and Water acts, Pure Food and Drug act, and the Civil Rights act of 1964
So here is the basic idea of the ADA, you are legally granted disability accommodations, not just for physical disability, but also mental disorders and disabilities. So if you are wheelchair bound, have an amputation, are deaf or blind, have ADHD, Autism, Bipolar disorder, PTSD, Schizophrenia or other disabilities, all employers are legally required to give you accommodations.
Additionally hiring discrimination on the basis of a disability is illegal and all public entities like museums, and transit are required to grant disability accommodations
Finally all construction is required to be built in a way to be accessible to people, meaning elevators and ramps are required and public places are obligated to reconstruct their spaces to be in line with the ADA.
It would be great if someone could remind the MTA of this, because between the lack of elevators, lack of bathrooms, and pulling out benches for the purposes of hostile architecture, there is some real deliberate forgetfulness at work.
Someone did tell them, now let’s see if they met this deadline
