{"id":191680932,"date":"2011-01-28T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=191680932"},"modified":"2011-01-28T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:42:12","slug":"woman-says-metro-bus-driver-ordered-passengers-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=191680932","title":{"rendered":"Woman Says Metro Bus Driver Ordered Passengers Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN HENREHAN\/ myfoxdc<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n41-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&#8217;s apartment in the White Oak section of Montgomery County. Like most traffic in the afternoon and evening, the bus crawled along for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:30 p.m., Moss said the driver, &quot;put us off the bus, and said he couldn&#8217;t go to Silver Spring. He couldn&#8217;t take us to the nearest subway station. We had to get out and walk.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Moss said she was terrified because she has poor night vision. &quot;I thought I was going to die last night,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Another Metro bus driver took pity on the passengers, and took them to the Wheaton Metro station, which, &#8212; by then &#8212; 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. &#8212; eleven-and-a-half hours after her journey began.<\/p>\n<p>Reminded that Metro had ordered drivers to end service by 9:30 p.m., Maria Moss shook her head. &quot;There were people on the bus,&quot; she replied. How can you put someone out in the snow with nowhere to go? How can you do that?&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/woman-says-metro-bus-driver-ordered-passengers-off-012711\">https:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/woman-says-metro-bus-driver-ordered-passengers-off-012711<\/a>oldId.20110128124212138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN HENREHAN\/ myfoxdc &#8230; 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&#8217;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., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=191680932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Woman Says Metro Bus Driver Ordered Passengers Off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191680932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191680932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191680932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191680932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191680932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191680932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191680932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}