Public transit stations across Chicago are failing millions—elevators that don’t work, ticket machines that ignore vision-impaired riders, and announcements that vanish for the hearing impaired. Senator Tammy Duckworth, who knows this struggle firsthand, is leading the charge to keep the All Stations Accessibility Program alive with new bipartisan legislation, as the $1 billion program set up by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is set to expire. Making old stations accessible isn’t just about ramps—it’s about real independence, but retrofitting historic hubs is costly and complex. Metra and CTA both have dozens of stations that are barely accessible, even with some upgrades underway. The push is nonpartisan, with House sponsors rallying behind annual funding to keep accessibility upgrades moving forward—because public transit must work for everyone, not just those who can already navigate it.
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