{"id":515,"date":"2024-07-26T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=515"},"modified":"2024-07-26T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:00:54","slug":"hra-in-the-news-riders-and-drivers-urge-translink-to-bring-handydart-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"HRA in the News: Riders and Drivers Urge TransLink to Bring HandyDart In-House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetyee.ca\/News\/2024\/07\/26\/Riders-Urge-TransLink-HandyDart\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee.png\" alt=\"Image of Tyee article titled Riders and Drivers Urge TransLink to Bring HandyDART In-House\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee.png 856w, https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-26-Riders-and-Drivers-Urge-TransLink-to-Bring-HandyDart-In-House-The-Tyee-800x800.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeth McKellar, chair of the HandyDart Riders\u2019 Alliance, has been using HandyDart services for 20 years. She says she loves her bus drivers \u2014 but not the way the company is run.<br><br>To get a ride you have to wait on hold for 20 minutes before being able to speak with dispatch and you never know if it\u2019s a bus or a taxi that will pick you up, she says. A taxi driver might not know how to help you get to the vehicle or help with your seatbelt the way a bus driver does, she says, which means passengers have to constantly advocate for their safety.<br><br>The passengers she worries about the most are chemotherapy and dialysis patients who might miss a pickup time at the hospital because their treatment ran long. They then have to wait for several hours for the next available ride.<br><br>\u201cThey\u2019re so sick and just want to go home, not to wait three hours in the hospital for a ride,\u201d McKellar said. \u201cThat\u2019s just cruel.\u201d<br><br><strong>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetyee.ca\/News\/2024\/07\/26\/Riders-Urge-TransLink-HandyDart\/\">https:\/\/www.thetyee.ca\/News\/2024\/07\/26\/Riders-Urge-TransLink-HandyDart\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeth McKellar, chair of the HandyDart Riders\u2019 Alliance, has been using HandyDart services for 20 years. She says she loves her bus drivers \u2014 but not the way the company is run. To get a ride you have to wait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,5,9,8,7],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-disability","tag-paratransit","tag-translink","tag-vancouver","tag-wheelchair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}