The inability to see or read the head sign of a bus, or to know where to stand based upon stalled traffic or double parked vehicles notwithstanding, one detail that usually does not escape notice in our fair city is when our air temperature is not fair. The afternoon fog moves in, the temperature drops …
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Roll Out the Red Carpet
At long last, the Muni Rapid Lanes are complete on Van Ness! Although critics imply the time savings for riders is only a few minutes in comparison to the lane revisions and bus stop closures over years of delays, I’m here to point out the real advantages these twin rapid lanes present to the future. …
Puddin’ Pants
Having left the raucous Receiver’s office at Potrero Division for the quieter Presidio Division, I thought material for my next book would suffer a drought not unlike the one Northern California had been experiencing for the last several years. As I write this chapter, snowpack is 160 per cent of normal, and the folks …
Call the Police
A phrase or action you never use or make when on the bus in San Francisco; at least until respectful help is extinguished, or the threat of injury or death is dramatically demanded in most uncertain terms! Good luck substitutes include: Can you hold on for two more stops? The drama Queen and “victim” will …
Catch the Bus
Steve Jobs never intended the iPhone to be nothing more than a fast way to check and send a few emails without having to be at the desk. The social change in how we talk to each other has gone through a revolution of sorts, leading to massive gatherings on a large scale, and looking …
Building Better Worlds
Mr. President recently exclaimed that ‘we,’ the US, would now resume the title as world leader in all aspects implied with green energy, infrastructure, and social. But did any other country or leader ask ‘us’ to do this? More pertinent, have you had a Kennebunkport minute? Your social register score, vis a vis poll numbers, …
Aloha
I always thought having a great job doing what I loved was too good to be true. I’d just do a job to get out of debt on my credit card or to be left alone after work so I could drink. Any job where I could clock out and not take my work home …
Lost and Found
In my first book, I talk about the amazing synchronicity in returning items to riders on my bus: ranging from the five one hundred dollar bills used as a book mark in an old softcover–to the coin purse of nickels, dimes, and pennies from an overjoyed senior downtown. I have four different versions of pdfs …
Doppelgänger
What with Venus, our brightest ‘star’ against an Aquarian new moon, I walk out my door wondering about the dance between Mars and Venus in Capricorn this lunar New Year. Shadow direct Mars and Venus’ retrograde pause in the muse’s music of an awesome dawn I reflect on Bernie’s cold weather sit v. Putin’s move …
The Tower
The second-most happiest moment of the day can usually be the time we see the tower in our front windscreen because it means we made it back to the barn! We completed another day of revenue service without creating more “incident” paperwork or having trouble meet us before our day is done. Oh, just a …
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 