Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advocates say the MTA's Access-a-Ride paratransit system discriminates against disabled New Yorkers by making them wait longer and ...

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 ...

Svetlana Cruz sat in her wheelchair at Avenue U and Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn around 5:20 a.m. Tuesday, waiting in the darkness for the Access-A-Ride bus to arrive and take her to her job in Long ...

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.

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The city has saved millions of dollars through service innovations to Access-A-Ride in the past four years, but the disabled on Staten Island say they're being left behind.