Access-A-Ride, Success-A-Ride

Fresh Meadows: Thank G-d for Access-A-Ride. Surprise, surprise, surprise — finally an Access-A-Ride customer who has positive things to say about the service! I have been an AccessA-Ride customer since the beginning of 1990, with the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. When I started, I was using braces and crutches. Eventually, I became wheelchair-bound. Because of the service, I was able to work seven years longer than I would otherwise have been able to, since I was not ready to retire. Now that I am retired, I would be lost without the service, and homebound since I can no longer walk or even stand. Since I have an oversize wheelchair, I cannot use the handicapped-accessible taxis.

I belong to and actively participate in a number of civic and political organizations, and Access-A-Ride takes me to all my meetings. Further, I can get to social events with friends and family.

Have I experienced late arrivals on occasion? Yes. But for the most part, the vans arrive on time, the drivers are courteous and helpful, and I get to my destination on time. Isn’t it sad that people forget the positive and concentrate on the negative, and paint the service with a wide negative brush. Stan Weinblatt Staten Island: There has to be a better way to get disabled folks around. Every time I see an Access-A-Ride bus, it’s empty, just driving around aimlessly. This industry should be investigated. It’s a big waste of gas and money. Joe Bosco

Past is past

Linden, N.J.: We Americans are the drama queens of the world: Nothing is too insignificant to hurt our feelings. America claims it has freedom of speech. But statues are speech. Removal of statues is censorship. I am not proud to be an American anymore, because it’s a country that violates its own First Amendment and a country that refuses to let the past rest in peace. Instead of worrying about trying to change the present, America is wasting its time trying to change the past. I wish there were a truly free country to move to. Ron Jackowski

Out of line

Silver Spring, Md.: For all the bleeding hearts: Ask the mothers of children killed by Dreamers if they should stay in the U.S. It’s a slap in the face to the mothers who did the right thing, waited their turn — what about their children? Ask the mothers of murdered children if we should give amnesty to illegals. They need to go home and get in line. Do we reward people for breaking the law? Mena A. Marano

DACA hell he is

Brooklyn: President Trump told the Dreamers, who are 800,000 fine people, who go to school, who work for a living, who are in the military, who pay their taxes, who are not on public assistance, who have committed no crimes, to “rest easy.” And he then signs a measure allowing them all to be ripped away from their families and deported. Even though they all came here as children and know no other country but the United States and speak English. Can they still “rest easy”? What a hypocrite. Arthur Mazlin

Hungry Hungarian

Suffern, N.Y.: In 1923, it took my grandmother four trips to Budapest to get a visa for my mom to emigrate to New York. On her fourth trip she bribed the clerk with 4 pounds of goose liver and got her visa. Bernice Blau Dean

Enter Sanders

New City, N.Y.: Related: Bernie Sanders and Sarah Huckabee Sanders speak for losers.

Ruth Rivero

Fact-free News

Howard Beach: The Daily News and its journalism have lost all dignity. Even people who are not President Trump’s supporters are commenting on your crude taste in reporting. Your biased, ugly, disrespectful and many times simply not factual reporting is becoming unacceptable and preys on many uninformed people. Print just the real facts, good or bad, and let the people decide. Your readers will become informed and the Daily News will become a more respected news source. Barbara Saladino Greenwich, Conn.: Once Hillary Clinton stops crying about the election, she should look into the bridge in Brooklyn that’s being sold. William D. Martin

Like a moth to blame

Middle Village: You know what happened, Hillary? You lost! You know why? Because you are a corrupt, selfish, self-serving, evil woman. I can’t believe I’m starting to feel sorry for Bill Clinton. But if it will make you feel any better, I will take the blame for your loss. Because I did not vote for you. No, wait, it’s my parents’ fault. They taught me not to vote for anyone who is trying to con you. Like the way you are trying to con more people out of money with your book tour. So it’s not your fault you lost, OK? Now please just go away.

Michael Geraci

Intelligent design

Flushing: To Voicers Sarah Rouse Cooney and David Biviano, who commented on circumcision: The practice is commanded by God himself as noted in the Book of Leviticus 12:3: “On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” Why did God, the supreme biologist, ordain the “eighth day” for this ritual? On this appointed day Vitamin K enters into the bloodstream. Vitamin K is a blood-clotting agent. Blessed be the name of the Lord for his unbounded wisdom.

Hyman Auslander

Mourn them

Great Neck, L.I.: The High Holy Days are fast approaching. I can’t help but reflect that the reciting of the memorial prayer on Yom Kippur for the 6 million lives stolen during the Holocaust will be especially painful and tearful this year. Nadine Feingold

High cop-liment

Sunnyside: My tire went flat on the westbound Long Island Expressway on a rainy Saturday night. Quite anxious, and unable to locate a service station after driving on a flat for several miles, I chanced upon and pulled into the parking lot of a Westbury Village government building that also housed a police department. My intention was to have the officer on duty identify my exact location and call AAA for assistance. Instead, he himself backed my car into the facility’s garage and replaced the flat with my spare. I was impressed and moved by his effort and offered a gratuity. He absolutely refused. The officer’s name is Nat Martinez. I write to express my gratitude and let all know that Westbury has one fine officer and human being in its employ. George Summers

Boat sunk

Staten Island: I am 85 years old and have lived on Staten Island my whole life. I see there are ferries from Brooklyn and Queens, and soon the Bronx, to the city. There used to be a ferry from Tottenville, S.I., to Perth Amboy, N.J. Why not bring it back? The people of Staten Island deserve it. Jack Daly

No ‘Groundhog Day’?

Brooklyn: As a homebound senior citizen who watches TV a lot, I would like to complain about the repetitious programming on most cable channels. Even though I subscribe to many different networks, the movies that are being televised are repeated over and over again — “Pretty Woman,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Jerry Maguire,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Miss Congeniality,” etc., etc. When I complain to my cable company, they say they are not responsible for the programming. Who is? They don’t seem to understand that I am paying a lot of money to see the same movies over and over again. Why should showing new and different movies be such a big deal? Does anyone have ideas about how to resolve this? Rose Juno

Glove off

Bellerose: Amid all the distractions with hurricanes, white supremacists, liberal protesters and naughty North Korea, have we all forgotten that O.J. Simpson may again be on the loose? Yikes!

John Calcaterra

Foul season

Yonkers: As the season runs down, it’s been a long year for us Met fans. I guess I can summarize it in one word: Oy. Warren Isaacs

She calls it

JEANNE NOONAN Bayside: A word of praise for the Mets team of broadcasters. Gary Cohen has got to be the best in baseball. Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling are so interesting and knowledgeable, it’s a pleasure to listen to them. I adore this bunch, and I hope the three will be back next year. And, needless to say, I’m also hoping they will return to report the games of a healthy and winning Mets.

Sarah Alboher