LiftComm supplied the emergency communication system for the three new elevators that opened this month at the MTA’s Kings Highway F station in southern Brooklyn. Three cabs, three intercoms, one fully accessible station.

Not the cab. Not the machine room. Not the mechanical or electrical equipment. The two-way voice and text intercom inside each cab that meets ASME A17.1-2019 Section 2.27.1.1.3 and lets a rider reach help the moment the doors close.

Smarter Communication. Safer Rides.

The LiftComm system installed in all three new Kings Highway cabs is ASME A17.1-2019 compliant, with two-way voice and text, video acknowledgement, a 45-second auto-reroute when the first responder doesn’t answer, and four-hour standby power. It is ADA compliant with visual acknowledgement for hearing-impaired riders. Call traffic stays on-premises inside MTA infrastructure.

On-premises hosting matters in transit. Cloud-hosted elevator phones route emergency traffic through outside vendor infrastructure, a non-starter for the kind of network security a transit agency has to maintain. LiftComm devices integrate directly into the MTA’s own network and PBX. PoE-powered units in each cab provision automatically when they’re plugged in.

One Specification, One Workflow, Every Cab

Kings Highway is a three-elevator station, but the LiftComm scope is the same as any single-elevator install. Same hardware. Same firmware. Same maintenance workflow. Whether a station gets one new elevator or three, the LiftComm scope drops in the same way. That consistency is why LiftComm intercoms keep showing up at MTA elevator replacements across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

Kings Highway: A 106-Year-Old Station Goes Accessible

The Kings Highway station sits in Gravesend on the elevated Culver Line, which opened here in 1919 as the line’s original southern terminal. Three new elevators opened this month as part of the MTA’s accessibility upgrade: one connecting the street to the mezzanine, and two connecting the mezzanine to the Manhattan-bound and Coney Island-bound platforms. LiftComm provided the intercoms inside all three.

Kings Highway is the fifth newly accessible station completed under the MTA’s ADA Package 3, the first program in MTA history to use a public-private partnership model where the contractor finances the work and is reimbursed as projects are completed and maintained to MTA standards.

Built for Transit. Ready for What’s Next.

Since 2020, LiftComm has supplied the emergency communication system for MTA elevator replacements and new accessibility installs across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Every one of those cabs meets ASME A17.1-2019 and ASME A17.1-2022: two-way voice and text, video acknowledgement, 45-second auto-reroute, four-hour standby power, and ADA-compliant visual acknowledgement. The architecture LiftComm ships today is the compliant baseline for both editions of the code.

The 2025-2029 Capital Plan invests $7.1 billion in station accessibility, funding 60 additional ADA-accessible stations and 45 more subway elevator replacements. Every one of those elevators needs an emergency phone that meets current code. That is what LiftComm builds.

Three more cabs in service this month at Kings Highway. The work continues.

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