Seattle ACCESS clients stranded when buses don’t show
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Mary Swift documents problems with the Seattle area ACCESS transportation program, which serves 27,000 people with disabilities. A spokesman for the service says its on-time performance is 92.2 percent, but Swift says that means many people wait a long time for rides that may come late or not at all.
These people, Swift says, don’t have the luxury of being able to make other arrangements for transportation to work or vital medical appointments.
That old adage about walking a mile in somebody’s shoes doesn’t apply here.
A new adage about spending a day in someone’s wheelchair just might.

