MTA Launches Bus Self-Securing Program

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has launched a six-month pilot program to test an automated wheelchair securing device on 10 buses along the M7 route.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a new rule that requires airline lavatories to be more accessible.

Parks across New York State were found to have inaccessible entrances and restrooms, obstacles on access trails and paths and limited parking for people with disabilities, according to an audit released by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the owners, operators and landlords of four nursing homes for years of repeated and persistent fraud and illegally misusing more than $83 million in taxpayer money that resulted in significant resident neglect, harm and humiliation.

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