Reply #12: I took a Greyhound and was dropped off 5 miles out of town [View All]

[R Hickey]

I took a Greyhound Bus about a month ago. The trip was from Madison, WI, to Eau Claire. I was rudely surprised when we arrived near Eau Claire, (pop 80,000) at close to midnight.

The Bus company had sold their in-town bus station a couple of years ago, and so I was dropped off in a deserted McDonald's parking lot, near the freeway exit, basically in the middle of nowhere, five miles outside town.

I walked about a quater mile to a Days-Inn and called a cab. In different weather, especially for a bus passinger without a lot of money, it would have been a life threatening situation.