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Engineer
https://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251656436015Texas Eagle Train 21/421 & 22/422: Station Construction Affects Service at Marshall, Texas
Effective September 11 - 19, 2017
Starting September 11 through September 19, the Marshall Amtrak station will be closed to the public while work is performed to construct a new ADA compliant elevator, ticket office and walkway to the train platform. During that time Amtrak Thruway Connecting Bus Service will provide transportation for customers traveling to and from Marshall.
Progress!
Reviewing the list of stations where the platform cannot be reached in a wheelchair (from late 2014):
Ashland, VA
Buffalo Exchange St., NY
Clifton Forge, VA
Coatesville, PA -- designed, approved, mysteriously delayed (perhaps unfunded)
Elko, NV
Glenwood Springs, CO -- listed as accessible but Amtrak does not consider it so internally (probably because the accessible route is far out of the way and not entirely safe)
Harpers Ferry, WV
Marshall, TX -- construction actually ongoing
Mount Joy, PA -- construction actually ongoing
Newark, DE -- constructing phase 1 but ADA construction is supposedly in "phase 3" (eyeroll) so I'm not sure it's fully funded
Paoli, PA -- construction supposedly started, but I haven't seen anything
Parkesburg, PA
Philadelphia-North,PA
Westerly, RI -- listed as accessible but Amtrak does not consider it so internally (probably inability to cross the tracks)
Windsor, CT -- new station designed, unfunded
Windsor Locks, CT -- new station designed, unfunded
Windsor-Mt Aschtney, VT
The speed of progress is abysmal. But given the abysmal speed, going from 2 stations under construction to 3 is a 50% improvement! So yay about Marshall.