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"A free pass for Uber, Lyft, and other big corporations to add thousands more inaccessible vehicles to our streets, with drivers footing the bill, is a step in the wrong direction."

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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 subsidized rideshare will be expected to pay $5 per trip, under an MTA proposal to make more people eligible for the program. “We’re expanding e-hail,” NYC Transit president Rich Davey said Monday at a ...

On Monday, April 3, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Suzette Olin was convicted of manslaughter for her role in the death of Shaka Ifil, her daughter’s boyfriend, and the father of her daughter’s newborn. Ifil was shot once in the back while in his Woodhaven home. “The jury convicted this defendant in the

"With the mask mandate lifted, Access-A-Ride users face the unimaginable choice between risking their lives to simply get where they need to get or going back to isolating themselves in their homes."

The 78-year-old woman was left on the street around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday near East 35th Street and Flatlands Avenue in Marine Park

A court ruling on Wednesday forced the MTA board to halt approval of a $579 million contract that would fundamentally change the agency’s Access-A-Ride program for years to come. Transit officials sought approval to give four companies the exclusive rights to complete brokered paratransit trips, which dispatch wheelchair-accessible taxicabs and vans to transport disabled riders instead of the ...