We are surprised that it took this long for someone to sue the MTA for its horrible Access-A-Ride, the paratransit service for people with disabilities. Its poor quality has long been documented and ...
Throughout the pandemic, as a way to protect riders, the MTA suspended shared cars and vans, but, starting in early July, the agency began phasing in shared rides for its Access-a-Ride users again.
Like it has done to virtually everything else in New York, the coronavirus pandemic is now shaking up the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s paratransit service, Access-A-Ride. This week, both ...
An MTA program that allows some Access-A-Ride users to arrange trips through app-hailed car rides is set to get more expensive. Disabled New Yorkers who currently pay $2.75 to get around via ...
The MTA was blasted for planned cuts to a popular Access-A-Ride program — even as the authority asks city taxpayers to kick in more money to ensure all paratransit service can improve amid rising ...
There is a reason why Access-A-Ride is better known as “Stress-A-Ride” for the approximately 170,000 New Yorkers who depend on it. The bill for Access-A-Ride will hit $616 million this year and the ...
Less than a week after an I-team investigation revealed surveillance video appearing to show a disabled stroke survivor being attacked by her own Access-A-Ride driver, detectives arrested a Staten ...
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Dear John: I am in a wheelchair. Access-A-Ride claimed it came to pick me up. When I called and complained that the driver never showed up, the driver told me to wait another hour. I waited another ...
For years, the Regional Transportation District’s main offering for riders in wheelchairs and with other disabilities required that they wait for a stubby, meandering bus to take them to their jobs, ...
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