Metro’s Board has created a new ad hoc committee tasked with recommending improvements for MetroAccess service.

 

     The Board agreed last month to create the Ad Hoc MetroAccess Advisory Committee in light of programmatic challenges facing the service. The advisory committee will complete its report to the full Metro Board in 90 days, but will provide an interim report in 45 days. As part of this ad hoc committee’s work, Metro’s Elderly and Disabled Committee and Riders Advisory Council will co-host a public forum to hear from riders on this issue sometime in March.

 

     Metro Board Member Dana Kauffman and Riders Advisory Council Chair Dennis Jaffe will co-chair the advisory committee.

 

     “The ad hoc advisory committee will provide some contract oversight, talk to riders, measure the service against other transit systems and come up with recommendations for the service,” said Gladys Mack, Metro Board Chairman. 

 

     The committee also will consider a Transportation Planning Board report released on February 15 on MetroAccess service.

 

     The other members of the ad hoc committee members are Metro Board members Jim Graham and Robert Smith; Patrick Sheehan, Chair of Metro’s Elderly and Disabled Advisory Committee and a Riders Advisory Council member; Mary Williams, Chair of the MetroAccess Subcommittee of the Riders Advisory Council, and Penny Reeder, a MetroAccess rider. Names of other members of the group will be released when they become available.

 

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