More than 100 MetroAccess reservation-takers and dispatchers went on strike Friday in a dispute with a Texas-based transportation provider over pay and working conditions. By nightfall, after a day of ...

MetroAccess users will start paying higher fares beginning Sunday, in the latest step aimed at reining in costs and curtailing use of Metro’s paratransit service. But the increase isn’t sitting well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scores of disabled MetroAccess riders say they continue to struggle with poor service, casting doubt on claims by Metro that things are getting better. Metro officials said yesterday that phone lines ...