. . .After 42 years away from the city–and my first event–a tour bus ride of Times Square! And look at this theatre-style seating! Great for looking out the windows to see all the lights in and around Broadway and 43rd.
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Impact Award
I did feel grown-up when my book won an award that made an impact. Death Monsters, as a native San Franciscan bike rider can attest, known as cars or automobiles by most folks, have become outrageously over-priced and no are longer filled with the simple promise of freedom to turn the ignition and go wherever …
My Authorship Authority
Why I Wrote This Book I was asked about why I wrote a book about being a bus driver in San Francisco. The first reason was in answer to why I am here. “We are all here to do what we are all here to do,” as the Oracle tells Neo in the matrix trilogy. …
Compulsive Honking Syndrome – Full Chapter Version
Dao of Doug Training Vault One of the treats of classroom training at Muni is the vintage videos with footage of San Francisco in the 1970’s. They show equipment smoothly flowing down Market Street with virtually no traffic and no delay. Screech forward to today’s reality—the sound of spinning tires, rad acceleration on the pedal, …
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We’ve Been Waiting an Hour
“Where the hell have you been?” a) “The pizza delivery boy was late and apologized, so I got a free pizza and ate it all at the terminal. You don’t expect me to wolf it all down in five minutes, do you? I am not allowed to use my phone while I am driving, so …
Motor Coach
When our barn falls short of equipment, we are assigned to Woods Division to get a diesel or motor coach. I love trolleys, and I love that San Francisco did not do away with streetcars and trolleys. Nowadays, trolleys look like buses. They have rubber tires and the body of a bus, except for the …
Free Ride
For those riders who are ready, a free ride is an opportunity to imagine what Muni would be like with no fare box at all. A smile and thank you is all it takes as a regular breezes by the yellow line to find a seat. The Zen zone is strong and the crunch zone …
Secure the Coach
Part of testing a new operator in being qualified by a state inspector is coach securement. As this book is written by a trolley operator, the added requirement of coach securement is in cradling the poles by the hooks near the harp at the back of the coach. Many a day goes by where a …
We’ve Been Waiting an Hour
“Where the hell have you been?” a) “The pizza delivery boy was late and apologized, so I got a free pizza and ate it all at the terminal. You don’t expect me to wolf it all down in five minutes, do you? I am not allowed to use my phone while I am driving, so …
Big Mouths and Crybabies
“Big mouths run hot.” So says our elected leader in the receiver’s office before picking up my outfit one morning. Apparently, a common thread running through arguments rebutting a write-up for running ahead of schedule is that of complaining about other persons, places, or things like our equipment as causes for running ahead of schedule. …
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 