The MTA’s Access-A-Ride service, a crucial lifeline for thousands of New Yorkers whose disabilities keep them from using the city’s subway system, is now run largely by third-party vendors and staffed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Access-A-Ride bus pulls up outside the Nord Bridge Seniors Centre just before midday. The driver lowers the ramp and helps ...

There is a reason why Access-A-Ride is better known as “Stress-A-Ride” for the approximately 170,000 New Yorkers who depend on it. The bill for Access-A-Ride will hit $616 million this year and the ...

The Access-A-Ride bus pulls up outside the Nord Bridge Seniors Centre just before midday. The driver lowers the ramp and helps Gordon Vaselenak down from the vehicle. He is wheeled across the pavement ...