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Rides Through Apps Are Wheelchair-Accessible Only 7% of the Time: Report

An Uber billboard hovers over Second Avenue and 126th Street in East Harlem.

A new report flags how the shortfall of wheelchair-accessible vehicles from the app-based ride-hailing giants subjects New Yorkers with disabilities to longer wait times. The “Left Behind Across New York” report from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest notes that just 7% of nearly 106,000 for-hire vehicles licensed by the city’s Taxi & Limousine […]

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