How Handicapped People Ride the Subway by Samantha and Adam

There are 468 subway stations.  69 have elevators.  399 do not.

We were wondering how handicapped people went on the subway.  We made inventions for handicapped people to ride the subway.  It makes us sad that some people can't ride the subway because they had injuries.  It's unfair that some people can't ride the subway.

Here are some inventions we made to help handicapped people use the subway.

Natalie: There's a wheelchair and the wheelchair has a button specially made for the subway. If you press the button
then your wheelchair goes in an empty space.  Then there's this little metal thing that holds on to another
chair so the wheelchair doesn't move.  There's also a bridge that connects to the subway door.  It is slanted.

Anandi: I drew one side for handicapped people and one side for people who are not handicapped.
My idea is to have monitors to help handicapped people get down the steps of the subway.

Malu: I made a little ramp for the wheelchair to go down.

Javier: My idea is when handicapped people use the subway something clips the wheels
and then a ramp appears where the stairs were.  And then the clip goes down the ramp.

 Henri: First you press a button.  The stairs turn into a ramp because it flattens out.
On the subway there's a button close to the door.
Then you press it.
Then a ramp comes to the floor.