SMART says it's served Southland Center since 1982.

Removing the bus stop will affect more than 170 people who use the bus stop each day at the mall in Taylor.

Taria Sims doesn’t want to rely on her mother for trips to Southland Center in Taylor.

She’d rather get to the shopping mall on her own by riding the SMART bus as she’s done for years. Busy thoroughfares nearby, such as multilane Eureka Road, make getting there by bike feel like not such a good choice to her, and she’s unable to drive herself.

“There’s too many cars,” she said.

But mall management is demanding the SMART stop be removed as of Monday, Nov. 10, and that’s leaving riders like Sims, 32, who has a cognitive impairment, in a challenging spot. That’s especially true because her job is to teach other people with disabil

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