King County only has 50 wheelchair accessible taxi medallions. Advocates have wanted more for years.

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King County only has 50 wheelchair accessible taxi medallions. Advocates have wanted more for years.

The wait to get a wheelchair accessible taxi can be over an hour at times, and Uber and Lyft don’t have accessible services

Becca Savransky, Seattle P-I
Sep. 30, 2019Updated: Oct. 2, 2019 12:13 p.m.

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(AUSTRALIA OUT) A disabled attachment on a Newcastle Texis Taxi at Hamilton, 11 February 2005. SMH picture by FIONA MORRIS (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)

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YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA – AUGUST 16, 2019: A wheelchair accessible taxi cab of the Russian Yandex.Taxi taxi service during a presentation. Donat Sorokin/TASS (Photo by Donat SorokinTASS via Getty Images)

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YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA – AUGUST 16, 2019: A driver of a wheelchair accessible taxi cab of [...]

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