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.
"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."
Read the full story: Cityscape: A master at the wheel in an urban loop
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