Elevator Planned for B/D Line Bedford Pk. Statio

By DAVID CRUZ

MTA OFFICIALS TOLD a members of Community Board 7’s Transportation Committee it plans to install an elevator at the center median of the Grand Concourse near one of the B/D Bedford Park subway station (pictured).
Photo by Adeline Hanssen

An elevator is coming to the Bedford Park B/D line train station.

The MTA revealed those plans at a Community Board 7 Transportation Committee meeting on March 9. They told members the lift will be installed at the center median of the Grand Concourse near Bedford Park Boulevard after reconfiguring the intersection with help from the city Department of Transportation. The plan requires no approvals from the board, though Transportation Chair Lowell Green backs the project, telling the Norwood News, “The more elevators we get, the better off we are.”

Ridership on the B/D line has remained steady in recent years, thanks to attractions like the New York Botanical Garden and the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, which are within walking distance.

The news comes two years after the MTA installed an elevator at the Kingsbridge Road B/D station at the northeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road.

Construction of the new elevator is expected to take place sometime in 2018.

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