A program that helps transit riders who are disabled travel with ease and avoid crowded trains and buses by offering subsidized costs on rideshare and taxis will be rolled back as the state re-directs funds to prop up the Chicago Transit Authority.

The Regional Transportation Authority reduced their RAP and TAP programs -- that pay part of the cost of rideshare or taxi rides for ADA eligible riders -- to allowing eight rides a day to just one.

The RAP and TAP Pace programs are more efficient than paratransit and they revolutionized how people who are disabled get around the Chicago area.

The program helps people be "able to get to the places where we want to go, where we have to be," said Ryan McGraw, a community organizer with Access Living.

Whether it be to work or for an appointment

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