ATLANTA — A metro grandmother said she had to wait nine hours for a MARTA Mobility Services bus to pick her up from a doctor’s appointment on Thursday.
“One minute, I wanted to cry because I said, ‘Durn, is anybody going to come get me?’ I was really getting upset because it was getting dark,” Christine Taylor told Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco.
Taylor explained she had a physical therapy appointment at Emory Brain Health Center at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday.
“I’m a double amputee,” said Taylor. “I went to the doctor to do my physical therapy. They’re teaching me how to walk on my prosthetics.”
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Taylor’s family members who have wheelchair-accessible vehicles were at work.
So, she said she scheduled MARTA’s ride-share bus to pick her up from her Stone Mountain home from home at 8:15 am and to pick her up from the appointment at 10:30 am. That ride home never made …