The bus stories stop here
There was some unfinished business from a recent series of bus-to-work stories that I wrote as a companion to bike-to-work stories written by my co-worker Don Mecoy.
I capped the stories with a column that focused on Nathaniel Martinez, a blind student at Oklahoma City Community College who bused to the southside of the city three days a week from Edmond.
I met him at the bus stop across from the University of Central Oklahoma as he waited for the Edmond Express bus that would take him to the Downtown Transit Center. From there he would catch another bus to OCCC.
Anyway, he was escorted to the bus stop by a taxi driver who stayed with him until the bus picked him up at UCO. That’s taxi driver David Kisling standing with Nathaniel at the bus stop in the photo above.
After the bus pulled away with Nathaniel on it, I spoke with Kisling and asked him how Martinez made the bus exchange at the transit center. He told me that Martinez pretty much did it on his own, sometimes asking fellow travelers to help him identify the correct bus he needed.
However, that wasn’t the whole story.
A Metro Transit bus driver who chose to remain anonymous called me to set me straight on the deal last week. The bus drivers all know Nathaniel and ensure that he makes it from bus to bus, he said.
“No driver would ever leave him on his own,” the driver told me. He seemed distraught that the story left that impression, and I apologized.
So, now you have the rest of the story.
Jim Stafford
Business News Writer
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Are your bus-to-work stories on line? I didn’t find anything doing a search within this blog. Sounds like an interesting series to me.