Fewer people are using Metro’s door-to-door service for disabled riders as the agency encourages them to ride the bus or rail instead, saving Metro millions of dollars. Demand for MetroAccess in 2011 ...
Metro is planning to scale back its MetroAccess service for elderly and disabled people as burgeoning ridership creates an unsustainable financial burden, Metro officials and board members said. With ...
A MetroAccess driver has been accused of sexually assaulting a disabled rider while transporting her home from adult day care in at least the third sexual assault case involving the agency’s ...
GREATER LANDOVER, Md. — Union members employed by public transportation company Transdev who help run MetroAccess will go on strike Monday, Aug.1 for better pay and schedules at the Hubbard Road ...
A contract driver for Metro's transit service for the elderly and disabled was arrested Thursday and charged with sexually assaulting a female bus customer in January in Prince George's County, about ...
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A MetroAccess van was struck by gunfire in Prince George’s County on Friday afternoon. Officials with the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the lobby of Sanchez Elementary School, Rebecca Ramirez waits on the MetroAccess bus to pick her up from work. Ramirez has used the paratransit service for people with mobility ...
More than 130 MetroAccess workers are striking to demand better pay and working conditions. Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 picketed outside the Transdev facility in Hyattsville, ...
MetroAccess drivers in ATU Local 689 were on the picket line again Tuesday in the Glenarden area of Prince George’s County, Maryland. (WTOP/John Domen) When a striking MetroAccess driver showed up to ...
On June 30, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 announced that MetroAccess workers returned an overwhelming 96 percent vote in favor of authorizing a strike, “if necessary,” to obtain a better ...
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On Thanksgiving Day, passengers looking to take the Metro can expect schedules to be different for buses, trains and MetroAccess. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit ...