Is that subway art? No, it’s the MTA’s new accessibility experiment.
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The MTA is testing more than a dozen new ways to help disabled commuters at Brooklyn’s busy Jay St/MetroTech subway station, and the agency hopes riders will give them input on what works and what doesn’t.
The station is decked out with colorful “way-finding stripes” on station floors and stairs, bumpy “tactile guideways,” boarding area floor markers, Braille signage and other accessibility assists. Way-finding stripes use colored, labeled stripes on the floor to lead commuters to the right subway platforms.
MTA turned the Jay Street hub into an “accessible station lab” in October and has been collecting feedback since then from hundreds who have passed through. The “lab” will remain up until Jan. 17, at which time it will be disassembled.