Symphony Station sits at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Huntington Avenue in front of Boston’s world-renowned Symphony Hall. Symphony Station is serviced by the MBTA’s light-rail Green Line, a part of the regions larger transit system. Symphony Station is used by many concert-goers, people seeking connections to the No. 1 and No. 39 buses, and area residents, including many senior citizens as the Symphony Plaza retirement housing towers that lie directly above the station. There is an average of 1,711 weekday boarding at this station.
   The MBTA has long planned to make this station ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) complaint but has been dragging their feet at the cost of thousands of commuters. In 2011 actions for renovating the station stalled with only 15% of the planing process completed. It is now 2016 and not a further step has been taken.
   After seeing many elderly people struggle to get up and down the stairs, many parents fighting to get children's strollers up and down, and countless people attempting to get other heavy items to street level it becomes imperative that this situation must be rectified to benefit all area residents and visitors. Everyone at some point in their life will need to use accessible infrastructure. Wether you have a child in a stroller, need to use a wheelchair or crutches, or even just need to take groceries in and out of the station. With this logic alone it is essential that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and the MBTA must make Symphony Station ADA compliant as soon as possible.
By signing this petition it will help to highlight the need to renovate and make Symphony Station ADA compliant as soon as possible and benefit all residents in the area by allowing everyone to utilize transit.