Portrait Of A Bus Driver

Reporting to work at four in the morning is a pleasure for Larry Taylor, whose story reflects the history of the city through which he drives.

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March 27, 2006, 8:00 AM PST

By David Gest

"By 3:20 each morning Larry Taylor is up, washed, dressed and headed for his job driving a city bus in parts of Washington that tourists seldom see. In the course of the day, he may have to deal with obstreperous drunks, the unbathed homeless and hard-to-control youth.

He loves his work.

Husky, with a trim, graying beard, he has spent more than half his life at the wheel of a red, white and blue bus run by Metro, the Washington area transit company."

FULL STORY: Cityscape: A master at the wheel in an urban loop

Monday, March 20, 2006 in International Herald Tribune

Social / Demographics Transportation District of Columbia

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