Metro announced today the remaining members of the new ad hoc committee created to review MetroAccess service. Metro announced last week it was creating the Ad Hoc MetroAccess Advisory Committee as part of its efforts to improve the service.
The newly named committee members include: MetroAccess riders Penny Reeder of Maryland and Ann Pimley of Virginia; Harold Snider, chair of the Montgomery County Commission for People with Disabilities; John R. Hudson, Program Manager of the Disability Services Planning and Development Department for Fairfax County; and Takoma Park Mayor Kathy Porter, who also was the lead author of the Transportation Planning Board’s recent report on MetroAccess service.
Metro Board Member Dana Kauffman and Riders Advisory Council Chair Dennis Jaffe will co-chair the 10 member advisory committee. Board members Jim Graham and Robert Smith also will be on the committee, along with Patrick Sheehan, chair of the Metro’s Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee and Mary Williams, chair of the Riders Advisory Council’s MetroAccess Subcommittee and a MetroAccess user.
The Board agreed last month to create the 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 the issue in March.
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