After celebrating his 13th birthday on Thanksgiving, Thomas James Brown was given a house key and allowed to wait for his bus to Oxon Hill Middle School at home, alone, instead of with neighbors.

Transit activists installed their own bench at a bus stop near Bridgeport Hospital in mid-July. It’s part of a guerrilla bus ...

However, waiting for a bus alone can take 25 minutes at best and more than three hours at worst. Ridership has been on the rise since the pandemic. In 2018 and 2019, annual ridership exceeded 800,000.

The day care was closed, but the bus had taken off and was out of sight, leaving Genesis alone at the front doors. (WTOC) “I was just standing there all alone,” Genesis said. “I knocked on the other ...