The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective
Rail Transit Commuters
We’ve seen planned communities built such as the one in Columbia, MD–heralded in the seventies as a “garden to grow people.” James Rouse bought up undeveloped farm land between Baltimore and Washington, DC, and sixty years later, urban planners still use aspects of this template in their current design plans. We also see strip malls …
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One of the most frustrating aspects in the bustle and tussle of a large, dense city is just missing a connection. This book is for the regular transit rider that may still be missing transfers to another bus that can be averted by one simple rule: your desire to catch that trolley bus actually hinges …
In the future of the world of George Lucas–of Star Wars fame–the modern central system city is filled with flying cars moving smoothly, but in a somewhat congested city, with tall gleaming buildings. In contrast to this futuristic world, is the world of Gene Roddenberry, of the Star Trek realm, where cities, like Romulus, resemble …
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Our New Flyer Trolleys will have an important modification over the first order of motor coaches. The left side of our exterior mirrors will be below our line of sight, and not above. This elevation change means we can turn left and see where we are headed. We still have the stanchion between the front …
My iPod nanos. I can’t understand why Apple is going backwards. “I wish we could go backwards–really, really fast. Pedal to the metal, you know.”* After an argument with Art3mis, Wade visits a scene in Halliday’s Journals where James Halliday argues with Ogden Morrow over the OASIS and Halliday’s hatred for making rules. The scene …
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One great billboard on the back of some buses is the illustration showing a bus turned-in at a bus stop with a cyclist behind the bus moving to the left to pass the bus. What a great illustration for a cyclist to see traveling behind a stopped city bus! This message has helped countless times …
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective