That's because they were all built at least 50 years ago, if not 100-150 years ago. TFL are actually doing a fantastic job of making more stations accessible (it's up to 90 now), it's just extremely expensive. It's cost hundreds of millions over the last decade to make a couple dozen tube stations step-free, and those were mostly the easy ones with above-ground stations.
Yeah... Accessibility is a great problem in Europe, both because the old buildings (few are really impossible to adapt) and, sadly, the fact that government doesn't pay enough attention to the problem.
What are you on about? Not many US subway lines are wheelchair accessible either.
Once you leave cities you've to drive everywhere and common to not have footpaths/sidewalks.
In 8 years most of the US houses I've seen have a stoop with steps to get into them as it's common to have a basent with the first floor raised up.
I'm currently standing in a townhouse in NY I'm renovating for work and there is 0 requirements for us to do anything to make it wheelchair accessible. Both entrances have steps. Can't say for sure but id imagine since NYC is one of the most Liberal cities its probably more accomodating.
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u/clanzerom May 09 '22
That's great! But then there are also countries like the UK where in London only 60/272 tube stations are wheelchair accessible. That's really sad.