Post by pavel on Apr 16, 2016 4:55:49 GMT -6
Megabus plans to pull its passenger bus service out of Chattanooga on May 1 until the low-cost, intercity carrier can find a new place to board and unload passengers.
Megabus — which unlike Greyhound doesn't have brick-and-mortar bus stations — has been shunted from one place to another around Chattanooga since it first came here in 2011, dogged by complaints that its passengers hang out and cause a nuisance during multi-hour layovers.
The bus line is no longer welcome at its current bus stop across from T-Bone's Sports Cafe at West Main and Chestnut streets near Finley Stadium.
"It is hurting my business," said Susan Danner, co-owner of T-Bone's, who complained of Megabus passengers camped out at 8 a.m. when Danner arrives at work and others who've helped themselves to T-Bone's' bathrooms and cursed T-Bone's' staff.
Read more: www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2016/apr/16/megabus-pull-out-chattanoogafter-complaints-d/360454/
Megabus — which unlike Greyhound doesn't have brick-and-mortar bus stations — has been shunted from one place to another around Chattanooga since it first came here in 2011, dogged by complaints that its passengers hang out and cause a nuisance during multi-hour layovers.
The bus line is no longer welcome at its current bus stop across from T-Bone's Sports Cafe at West Main and Chestnut streets near Finley Stadium.
"It is hurting my business," said Susan Danner, co-owner of T-Bone's, who complained of Megabus passengers camped out at 8 a.m. when Danner arrives at work and others who've helped themselves to T-Bone's' bathrooms and cursed T-Bone's' staff.
Read more: www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2016/apr/16/megabus-pull-out-chattanoogafter-complaints-d/360454/