Greyhound riders stuck in Atlanta get back on the road
The hundreds of people who were stranded at Atlanta's Greyhound Bus Lines terminal over the weekend have departed, the company said.
Snow-bound, icy roads in surrounding states shut down the bus system, delaying passengers as long as two days, Greyhound spokesperson Bonnie Bastian said Monday.
The conditions affected a swath of the United States from Texas to Virginia and forced Greyhound to take its drivers off the roads, she said.
"If the roads aren't safe, we try not to put our passengers and drivers at risk," she said.
A couple of hundred passengers were stuck in Atlanta and were allowed to sleep in the terminal or in buses with engines running to maintain the temperature, Bastian said.
"We handed out hundreds of food vouchers and we also had a local mission come in and give everyone food," she said.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
