Kai Ryssdal: Twenty years ago this coming Monday, July of 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Not overnight, but in the years that followed, parts of ...

Angry and frustrated riders using MetroAccess filed more than 2,400 complaints about poor service last month, a 445 percent increase over the previous January, according to Metro statistics.

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 ...

WEST HAVEN -- Many people without cars take for granted that they can make impromptu social plans or last-minute appointments, then call a taxicab. But for people in wheelchairs, that wasn't a reality ...

A woman says her 80-year-old mother tipped over in her motorized wheelchair in bushes and snow after MetroAccess left her alone in the freezing cold in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Consuelo Edwards said ...