Bus Passengers Stranded for Days at Atlanta Greyhound Station
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:42PM Hundreds of Greyhound passengers received food Tuesday morning after being stuck for more than 24 hours at an Atlanta bus station. That was nice, but it was little consolation to those stranded in the crowded station
After Monday’s winter storm, icy roads stalled the buses, preventing hundreds of riders from getting to their destinations. Emotions were running so high at the station, that some passengers took the situation into their own hands.
"I took it upon myself to call McDonalds’ corporate office in Chicago and they connected me to the southern region here and the McDonalds here down the street … he brought food for everybody, but that's something they should do. Greyhound, they made millions of dollars," said passenger Valencia Dantzler.
Stranded citizens also called the Mayor’s Office of Atlanta to complain of not having any food, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said. She said Atlanta police were alerted of the incident around 11 p.m. and instructed the city jail to prepare sandwiches for the stranded riders.
Some buses started leaving for their destinations Tuesday afternoon.
WSBTV did a nice feature on the bus station situation here:
