Today is
International Bus Driver Appreciation Day. I hope you took time to say thank you to a bus driver. For 6 years I worked at Hampton Roads Transit with a great group of bus operators (transit speak for drivers) and mechanics who get 50,000 riders to their destinations every day in Southeastern Virginia. They start each day early, at around 4:00am, and the last bus completes the final run of the day 22 hours later at 2:00am. They work long shifts, many work split shifts, weekends and even holidays. Bus service is a 365 deal.
Bus driver appreciation day is on March 18th because that is the anniversary of the very first bus service launched in Paris in 1662 using horse-drawn vehicles. According to an
article on Wired it was the brainchild of French mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, and author
Blaise Pascal. Fellow geeks know Pascal as the inventor of an e
arly calculating machine forerunner of modern computers and the programming language
PASCAL named in his honor.
Canon G10, 1/200 sec @ f/8.0, ISO 200.
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