WMATA provides paratransit through MetroAccess, and also contracts it out through Abilities-Ride. Here’s how the FTA’s proposal to end the “taxicab exemption” could impact the region’s riders.

FTA issued guidance that may limit agencies’ ability to integrate TNCs into their demand-responsive paratransit services, ...

“Riding a paratransit bus gives us that independence, but the current service NFTA provides is an injustice to our disabled seniors, veterans and to us, the disabled.” ...