Our fight to fully fund safe and reliable Access service in King County builds upon an important history of fighting for accessible public transportation in this country.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requiring lifts on buses as well as paratransit was passed in 1990, thanks to the direct action of people with disabilities throughout the 1980s. Disabled people were in the streets, in the Capitol, blocking buses, fighting for the right to have functioning lifts and to ride the public’s buses. ...