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 ...
MetroAccess users will start paying higher fares beginning Sunday, in the latest step aimed at reining in costs and curtailing use of Metro’s paratransit service. But the increase isn’t sitting well ...
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 ...
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 ...
Workers who run some of Metro’s paratransit service have reached a tentative agreement with a private contractor, ending a nine-day strike. The over 200 MetroAccess workers walked off the job on ...
WASHINGTON — In its quest to look for cuts across the board, Metro plans to temper spiking costs for paratransit service with a pilot program that would pay for rides on Uber, Lyft or similar services ...
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, ...
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 ...