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Resident tells commission transit drivers denied passengers with grocery carts, leaving elderly rider behind

Owensboro City Commission · November 19, 2025
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A resident said Owensboro transit operators told riders to fold grocery carts and left a 78-year-old woman at a Walmart after she could not carry holiday groceries on her lap; city staff pledged to investigate and follow up with the speaker.

At the open public forum Georgia Bryant, who identified her address and said she rides the bus daily, told the commission that in the past month drivers have required passengers to fold grocery carts and move groceries into their laps, and that on one occasion a 78-year-old woman was left at the Walmart on Frederica…

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