People needing a wheelchair-accessible taxi in New York City will now find it easier to find one.\u00a0 Accessible Dispatch is a new service available by phone, Internet or mobile app.<\/p>\n
Accessible Dispatch is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout Manhattan.\u00a0 Upon notification, a wheelchair-accessible taxi is dispatched to your location immediately.\u00a0 Advanced reservations are not required, but they are accepted.<\/p>\n
A taxi may be booked by calling 311.\u00a0 You may also call in or text a request to 646-599-9999, book online at www.accessibledispatch.com\/book, or use the mobile app, WOW Taxi (Wheels on Wheels).<\/p>\n
Once the system receives your request, it locates the nearest available wheelchair-accessible taxi, all of which are equipped with GPS tracking.\u00a0 The request is sent to the taxi’s data terminal for the driver to accept the request and proceed to the location.\u00a0 If the closest driver does not accept the request within two minutes, the request automatically (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People needing a wheelchair-accessible taxi in New York City will now find it easier to find one.\u00a0 Accessible Dispatch is a new service available by phone, Internet or mobile app. Accessible Dispatch is available 24 hours a day, 7 days…<\/span><\/p>\n