Cristy Fossum, a 78-year-old retired special education teacher in Columbia, has plans to travel to Athens, GA next Friday. She doesn’t know if she’ll make it, however, because the capital city lacks a Greyhound bus station.
It’s a concern held by multiple low-income families in Columbia, who don’t own cars and can’t afford to purchase an airline ticket amid rising costs.
“I booked a bus ticket out of Elgin, which is 18 miles away, and I don’t know how I’m going to get there,” Fossum said. “I just don’t know. I don’t have a car and Lyft or Uber is just prohibitive on my budget.”…