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The Art of Exposing Liars

Posted by Lez on October 14, 2012 at 4:30am 0 Comments 0 Promotions

I've made my statements know to several different outlets and media syndicates about my opinions about MVTransportation (MetroAccess).

Yes, I was the one who recorded, edited and posted several videos concerning the foul ways in which management ran it's employees and patrons to the…

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"Hot Clients" Leave Regular Riders Out In The Cold.

Posted by The Access on July 16, 2012 at 4:30am 1 Comment 1 Promotion

Hot (Alert) Client: {hot klahy-uh…

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Sign Letter, Support Designated Funding Now in Surface Transit Bill- Call Congress. Calling All Paratansit Riders, Drivers; Hwy Workers, Wheelchair Taxi Companies

Posted by Dr. Ayo Maat on June 19, 2012 at 12:26pm 0 Comments 2 Promotions

June 9, 2012 –June 23, 2012

SIGN LETTER TO PASS Congressional SURFACE TRANSIT BILL

WITH DESIGNATED FUNDING TODAY: Must pass by June 30

Urgent- Please call your federal (U.S.) Senators, Representatives, local elected officials to support the Surface Transit Bill with designated funding for…

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Taxicabs built for residents with disabilities take to the streets

Posted by The Access on June 18, 2012 at 1:28am 0 Comments 0 Promotions

Tears welled up in Patricia Sanders’ eyes as her motorized wheelchair moved down the ramp of an Accessible Taxi cab.

Sanders, the county government’s Americans with Disabilities Act compliance coordinator, said she has been trying to get more handicapped-accessible taxicabs in the county for…

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MetroAccess Supervisor HUMILIATES Employees on FaceBook!

Posted by The Access on May 21, 2012 at 3:00pm 6 Comments 2 Promotions

Meet Mark Hollinsworth.

Mark is the Operations Manager/Supervisor at the largest provider of the WMATA MetroAccess contract, based out of Capital Heights, Md., haven for so many problems have stemmed from over the past year and a half, and yet again, when we got wind of this news, we listened.

As the droves of drivers that are reliant and dutiful about their jobs as Paratransit Operators, it would seem that appreciation from powers…

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Battle's Trans.: "Life After MetroAccess....Life is GOOD!"

Posted by The Access on May 17, 2012 at 3:30pm 1 Comment 3 Promotions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Tina Clarkson

(202) 462-8658 Ext. 206…

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Battle's Transportation: " F**K METROACCESS!"

Posted by The Access on January 23, 2012 at 1:58pm 0 Comments 0 Promotions

A key provider of Metro's service for riders with disabilities is pulling out of the transit agency next month.

Battle's Transportation will stop providing …

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WE WILL NOT BE SILENT about Paratransit and Needs of PWD's for A Transit Summit, Self-employment, Sustainable Income, and Ownership of A Green Paratransit

Posted by Dr. Ayo Maat on November 29, 2011 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 0 Promotions

Green Think Tank for the Disability Community

This is the place to keep up with us as we raise funds to go to Washington DC in May 2012 for the NPPMA…

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Fudging the Numbers with MetroAccess (visited)

Posted by The Access on November 8, 2011 at 8:00pm 4 Comments 0 Promotions

By Dana Hedgpeth

Riders who use Metro’s door-to-door shuttle for those with disabilities gave their opinions of how to improve the service this week, as the transit agency prepares to rebid the…

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How MetroAccess, MV Transportation, and WMATA fail D.C.'s disabled riders

Posted by The Access on October 27, 2011 at 4:08pm 0 Comments 0 Promotions

On Monday night, MetroAccess vans lined 5th Street NW in front of WMATA's Jackson Graham headquarters in Chinatown. You've seen the vans all over the District — the long white vans with the big MetroAccess signs, part of a fleet comprising 600 vehicles. Dozens of people with disabilities had arrived on this dark, chilly evening for the first of three town halls to…

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