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 ...

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 ...

Nadia Ibrahim, a policy adviser for the Labor Department, gets to work from her Rockville home by taking MetroAccess, a paratransit service operated by Metro. Ibrahim, who has cerebral palsy, uses a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metro’s fast-growing service for the disabled, MetroAccess, could nearly double its current ridership over the next five years, putting stress on the already expensive service. Ridership figures for ...

Elizabeth McKee is 82 and blind. On Tuesday, she left her Woodley Park home for a doctor's appointment in Silver Spring, 12 miles away. She got home eight hours later, so shaken by her travel ...

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, ...

All MetroAccess paratransit services for customers with disabilities will be suspended at 4 p.m. Monday and all day on Tuesday due to weather and expected road conditions. Metro officials say the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A MetroAccess van was struck by gunfire in Prince George’s County on Friday afternoon.