Metro Transit managers will be taking out Access-A-Buses on Monday to help people with disabilities to get to their medical appointments, but they may face a roadblock along the way.

Striking transit workers are vowing to block the buses from leaving the transit parking lot.

"Oh, we're going to block them, as we blocked Burnside and Ragged Lake since the strike started," says Amalgamated Transit Union president Ken Wilson.

The union is questioning the safety of having managers drive the buses.

"...the training right now is six weeks, plus two weeks minimum mentorship for access-a-bus operators," says Wilson.

Many of the 1,800 registered Access-A-Bus users just want the buses to be back on the road again.

Alex Peeler is a screen arts student at the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth. He normally uses an Access-A-Bus to get back and forth from school, but is now forced to rely upon his parents for transportation.

"It's a lot harder to get to class," says Peeler. "Especially with the ice and snow."

Another side effect of the strike has been a shortage of parking on the Halifax peninsula. Recently, Nathanial Hunt found a parking poacher in his paid-for parking space. He was forced to park elsewhere and his car was towed.

"It wasn't like that before the buses were on strike," says Hunt. "Not to mention the amount of vehicles on the road right now."

Pressure has been growing for the provincial government to intervene in the strike and get the bus drivers back to work. NDP Deputy Premier Frank Corbett says the government won't interfere.

"For us to get into anything beyond that would be intruding into the bargaining between the two parties and we're not prepared to comment on that," says Corbett.

Business professor Ed McHugh says the Access-A-Buses may be pivotal in the effort to win over public opinion.

"Now the bus is delayed and they miss their appointment for something as critical as dialysis, that becomes a story quite quickly and the union won't look good," says McHugh.

More than 500 Metro Transit workers parked their buses and ferries and took to the picket lines Feb. 2 after the union and the city failed to reach a contract agreement.

Before the strike, there were roughly 96,000 passenger trips taken daily on Metro Transit busses and ferries.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ron Shaw