Woman Says Metro Bus Driver Ordered Passengers Off
By JOHN HENREHAN/ myfoxdc
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41-year old Maria Moss started her journey at 3:30 p.m., when she left work (in Rockville) early to try to get to her mother's apartment in the White Oak section of Montgomery County. Like most traffic in the afternoon and evening, the bus crawled along for hours.
Around 11:30 p.m., Moss said the driver, "put us off the bus, and said he couldn't go to Silver Spring. He couldn't take us to the nearest subway station. We had to get out and walk."
Moss said she was terrified because she has poor night vision. "I thought I was going to die last night," she said.
Another Metro bus driver took pity on the passengers, and took them to the Wheaton Metro station, which, -- by then -- was closed. The small group eventually stumbled onto an all-night donut shop. After a 90-minute wait, Mrs. Moss managed to get a cab; she returned home at 3:00 a.m. -- eleven-and-a-half hours after her journey began.
Reminded that Metro had ordered drivers to end service by 9:30 p.m., Maria Moss shook her head. "There were people on the bus," she replied. How can you put someone out in the snow with nowhere to go? How can you do that?"
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