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Major Victory in Access-A-Ride Fare Fight!

March 23, 2009



As you may have read in this morning’s NY Daily News (“MTA backtracks on huge Access-A-Ride hike” 3/23/09), the MTA has shelved its disastrous, discriminatory, and illegal plan to raise the paratransit fare from $2 to $5 (or $10 for a round-trip).

Regular readers know that I have blogged about this before (“VIDEO: New Bill Prevents MTA from Raising Access-A-Ride Fare to $5“) and earlier this month I held a press conference with Senator Tom Duane to announce our legislation (A.6489/S.2933) that prohibits a transit authority from discriminating against people with disabilities in their fare structure. This bill codifies in law what the MTA has already promised in a written 1993 contract with New York City never to increase the fare for Access-A-Ride higher than the regular fare. Had the $5 fare passed, we would have had to sue to get that contract enforced.

I am pleased that the MTA has finally got the message that discrimination is not acceptable in New York. But to make sure that we never repeat this fiasco, I am continuing to fight to get the legislation enacted.

A statement I released today can be found in the Publications section of my website.

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Written by Micah · Filed Under Blogroll, Community 

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