From NYC: "A Wheelchair User Can't Get on a Bus, So He Blocks One," by Corey Kilgannon

The lack of access for disabled riders on New York City buses is a longstanding complaint of wheelchair users, but it is not an issue that normally makes headlines.

But take a half-dozen wheelchair users planting themselves in front of a city bus, add snarled traffic and angry drivers, a dozen police officers and news media types descending on the scene, and even a news chopper overhead. On a stifling hot day, the situation boiled over onto the asphalt of Queens Boulevard in Jamaica yesterday and quickly became an example of serious New York mayhem. (Read more here.)