Metro Denver residents with disabilities gathered outside the federal courthouse Monday after asking a judge to block the Regional Transportation District’s restructuring of its Access-on-Demand service, which has provided free rides using commercial services such as Uber and Lyft.

Their lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court , seeks a preliminary injunction to stop RTD from implementing a $4.50 base fare for riders who use the system because it would embody what the plaintiffs allege is illegal “disparate” treatment.

Attorneys representing the Atlantis community and American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today , an advocacy group known as ADAPT, argue that transit officials have increased fares and reduced the hours for Access-on-Demand service for riders with disabilities wh

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