Residents with disabilities have fewer options for getting around the city.

Passengers who require wheelchairs can access Uber vehicles for persons with disabilities.

Two bystanders jumped down to the tracks at the U Street Metro station.

The man in the wheelchair suffered a broken wrist.

A new cab company in Prince George’s County caters specifically to physically disabled customers using a vehicle designed with disabled people in mind.

Outside the Wilson Building this afternoon, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) showed off one of the city’s relatively new wheelchair accessible taxicabs ahead of a hearing next Monday at which the D.C. Council will consider a sweeping overhaul to the city’s taxicab regulations.

Dwight Harris, the man who was videotaped being forced from his wheelchair and bloodied by Metro Transit Police along U Street in May, was supposed to appear before a judge on Friday on misdemeanor assault charges. That won’t be necessary now, though: all criminal charges against Harris have been dropped.

The videotaped altercation between Dwight Harris and two transit police officers who appeared to violently restrain him outside the U Street Metro station last week has led to dropped charges and discipline for the officers involved.

The man accused of resisting arrest during an altercation with transit police which was caught on tape outside the U Street Metro station is now speaking out.

Yesterday, we reported on a disturbing piece of video which depicted two Metro Transit Police officers restraining and arresting a wheelchair-bound man outside the U Street Metro station. The video has drawn plenty of reaction — enough for Metro to finally respond to what happened.