The Dao of Doug 2: The Art of Driving a Bus or Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer's Guide
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Getting off a plane eventually means having to wait in long lines for the carousel or rental car. Or figure out how to get around in San Francisco. It can be expensive and frustrating. The sucking sound of money flying out of your wallet starts as soon as you touch down at SFO: Landing fees. Resort Fees. Parking Valet fees. Shuttle fees. Ditch the rental car! Unless you know the three signs to look out for when trying to park: Street cleaning days, Residential Permit restrictions; Arterial Lane Clearing during rush hour; Red zones, curb clears, SFFD zones, Delivery Yellow zones.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Not so if you in the Zen of how to ride Muni, where to stand, and how to pay your fare. Take BART right from the International Terminal: Alaska Air is the fastest and closest to BART. You go down for baggage, then up to the arrival ramp desks, then cross over the drop-off area, then down to BART. $8.85 to go downtown. Tip: It gets more expensive after 16th and Mission, but all downtown stations cost the same. BART to Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery, or Embarcadero all cost the same.
Need to get to the hotel? Don't ask the Transit Operator at Kearny and Market, you'll be split from your group and you'll be on to Sutter Street with your bags on the sidewalk! Plan ahead and look at the detailed bus map located at any bus shelter. Know what bus line you need to get to your destination BEFORE boarding.
Like the Cable Cars or Street Cars? Take them later. Fisherman's Wharf to Union Square in the morning, downtown after 6 p.m. till 10 p.m for no waiting. Better yet, read a kindle version of "The Dao of Doug" before you land. There's a lot to know!
You are in luck. You can use my 19 years behind the wheel of an electric trolleybus condensed into the series of three Dao books to get around in San Francisco using public transportation for less than 3 dollars! Forget the passes, they are expensive as they bundle the 7 dollar cost of a cable car into them. Pay as you go, and have exact change. You can ride for 90 minutes, which should be enough time to get to Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Bridge, or to any hotel within the compact 47 hills over 49 square miles of San Francisco county.
Put your tongue in cheek, and read Driver Doug's missives about Riding Muni in Ess Eff.! Have It Ready, Know where to Stand, Islands v. Curbs, Avenues v. Streets.
Our numbering system is a snap once you realize it all keys off of Ferry Plaza and Market Street. Odd piers to the north, evens to the south. All street addresses begin at Market. 1550 Bush is 15 point 5 blocks from Market. 700 Montgomery is 7 blocks from Market. Island stops outbound take you south of Golden Gate Park, curbs take you to the Richmond, north of the park, and are less crowded than the N Judah or 7 Haight.
Trolleybuses come so often we don't even publish a timetable. The headway is listed on the bus shelter and changes every 4 hours. These are the golden nuggets not found at Sutter's Mill in El Dorado County by Placerville, but in the Dao, the way of being in the Zen in San Francisco transit!
Douglas Meriwether
Douglas GriggsTransit Operator at SFMTAdriverdoug2002@yahoo.comAuthor, "Finding Zen in San Francisco Transit" at Balboa PressSeptember 2016 - Present (2 months)Re-created 206 page 55,000 word book with 12 illustrations, highlighting being a transit operator in SanFrancisco as a new updated edition from first publication in January of 2013.The Dao of Doug 2: The Art of Driving a Bus: Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer's Guide. Balboa Press: 186 pages, copyright January 21, 2015 Continues exposition about issues in San Francisco Transit. Chapters include Island versus Curb stops on Market Street, reducing transfer cost, Scheduling and Range Sheets, Tips on passing air brake test and choosing a run. One key to a smooth ride: knowing that it is not a bus, but a person driving a bus.Keeping Zen in San Francisco TransitMembers:Douglas Griggs, Jackie Cohen, John Jeffrey McGinnis, Mark ArellanesBroadcastingAnnouncer, KBIA-FM - National Public Radio, Columbia, MO 1980 - 1985 Part-time positions hosting shows for the Curators of the University of Missouri. 100,000 watt NPR affiliate with the Journalism School at UMCAll Things Considered - NPR delayed broadcast with three segment format clock and two local pitches to local newsroom.Last Radio Show - Late night jazz show. Programmed and selected music, timed airplay lengths, delivered weather an ad-libbed introductions.Adventures in Good Music - with NPR host, Karl Haas, Accent on Music; World of Music - Segued and back-announced classical albums, announced weather, community billboards, PSA's, Pitched to newsroom live, on the hour with :30 and :60 dead-roll themed music beds.Created audio voice overs for PSA's, telephone greeting message systems, radio ID's, character voices.Extensive editing of Hourly seminars for non-profits and 12 step recovery programs.ProjectsSpecialties: Commissioned Officer 1982 Officer Candidate School, Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, VA 1981 BA University of Missouri - Econ minor Dean's Honor RollSkills & ExpertisePublic Speaking Public Relations EditingSocial Media Customer Service BudgetsStrategic Planning TrainingMicrosoft Word Event Planning Creative Writing Marketing Copywriting TeachingMarketing Strategy Copy EditingEvent Management Fundraising Facebook Community Outreach ManagementPhotography NonprofitsSocial Media Marketing Social Networking BroadcastTransit Operations TransportationEducationUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaBA English, Econ English, 1979 - 1981 Grade: Dean's Honor RollActivities and Societies: Marching MizzouWashington University in St. LouisAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Concurrent with Broadcast Center, Clayton, MO, 1977 - 1979Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma FraternityInterestsmountain bike riding, photography, swimming, movie going, day hikesCertificationsClass B California Driver's License with Airbrake Endorsement and VTTCalifornia Department of Motor Vehicles
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The Dao of Doug 2 - Douglas Meriwether
The Dao of Doug 2:
Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer’s Guide
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Douglas Meriwether
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Whether you take mass transit or drive, either in San Francisco or elsewhere, this book offers philosophical wisdom beyond the overt advice on how to be a better passenger or driver, and how to deal with traffic jams and difficult personalities. The sequel to the Dao of Doug is about the art of remaining peaceful and maintaining dignity when the going gets tough.
Jackie Cohen,
Member of the Board of Directors,
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
I’ve been riding Muni for my whole life and, as an SF Weekly reporter, delving deep into its inner workings for many years. It’s not always a pretty picture. Actually, it’s rarely a pretty picture. So that’s why Driver Doug’s tales are such a pleasure. They’re the often painfully honest testimonials of a man who really gives a damn.
A man who strives to achieve Zen while operating a Muni bus is worth getting to know. San Franciscans get on the bus. And then they get off. But Doug is there for the long haul, pulling in, pulling out, and motoring, ever closer, to Zen. May he reach it soon.
Joe Eskenazi,
SF Weekly staff writer and columnist.
Books by Douglas Meriwether
The Dao of Doug: The Art of Driving a Bus OR Finding Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Bus Driver’s Perspective
The Dao of Doug 2: the Art of Driving a Bus: Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: a Line Trainer's Guide
Contact at:
www.daoofdoug.com
Dedication
In Loving Memory: Doug Fritz
5.7.41 - 12.31.12
For ‘the other Doug.’ Thanks for listening.
Your broad smile and Cheshire grin with a laugh — kept me going those first two years as a bus
driver. Thanks!
Acknowledgments
Special Thanks to baristas Angela, Chan, Brian, Data, Jaime, Karla, Kim, Luis, Memo, Mike, et. a1. for providing the dark roast coffee as fuel for writing this book.
Better three hours too early, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Table of Contents
Why I Wrote This Book
The COLAs and SALT POSSE
Pre-op
Mirror, Mirror
LPO
Timed Transfers
Transfer Cut
Not a Bus… a Person Driving a Bus
Cloak of Invisibility
The Kneeler
Flip-Up Seats
Avenues or Streets?
Islands and Curbs
Crunch Zone
APC Coach
Over There
Flat Tire
Hot Lunch
Car Cleaners
Safe Driver Award
Open Run
Follow My Leader
Restricted Mode
Upper Yard
EPU
The Long and the Short of It
Big Mouths and Cry-babies
We’ve Been Waiting an Hour
Stop Request
Late Ring
Motor Coach
Open Trench
Buttonhook
Jay Walkers
Bike Rack v. The Wiggle
Frisco
Retrievers
Road Call
The Overhead
Drop and Rack
Service Dogs
Faux Pas Number 117
Rolling Delay
Blocked Zone
One Block Spacing
The Flag Stop
Reading On Muni
The PA: Calling Out Stops
VTT
Range Sheets
Relief Time
Sliding Seats
GSU
Stop Sign and the Four-Way Stop
Not My First Rodeo
Running Time
Leaving Time
Splits
Drive Camera: Horseshoes & Grenades
Straight Through
Owls and Twilights
The Tower
Beep Beep
Sacramento
Line Trainer
Lost and Found
Dust Cover Jacket
Glossary
Song of the Trolleyman
About Douglas Meriwether
Other Books by Douglas Meriwether
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
I was asked 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. Being of service was and is my first motive to get what I learned down on paper. As a guide for those who follow me at the job, I hope to provide a higher vantage point from which to see what lies ahead on the road. And not just with the drive-cam evidence at a Skelley (disciplinary) hearing! To get us on the same page. And for the public at large to get an understanding, a wakeup call, how to smooth the ride.
Where we place the door seems to baffle most intending passengers. The distraction of showing a transfer at an awkward, unsafe moment also causes complaints to arise from our aggravated tone of voice, with a complete lack of understanding of why. Our passion about safety is a first priority, and the challenge is in trying to relay much experience in a short span of time. This relay is what this book is all about. We have reasons for why we do what we do, and if this is understood, another angel can be with us on the bus, and not in the complaint cue.
When patrons rush to the door, they are just as unsure about what to expect from the bus driver as I am of them. If anything written here stirs controversy (although not my intent), it would be worth it to get into a conversation about what has worked and what has not: To see through eyes of interconnectedness, not isolated in our car with the windows up (except for a hand sticking out with the single middle finger in the air as it passes by the bus) is my hope.
The caution and reinstruct
love letter from our superintendent after an incident, comes without the necessary clarity about our part, and their part, in causing the conflict. It is the proposed solution for next time and an opportunity, through our Zen-like mastery, to state safety needs without an angry or harsh tone.
Preconceived notions or attachment to something else is what’s usually behind a service complaint. It is often not what is said, but the tone in which it was said. In the flash-of-the-pan moment, this becomes almost impossible; but on the pages of this tome, a space cushion
remains.
This space cushion we are trained to keep around our bus at all times goes a long way toward explaining why we are splitting the lane or driving down both lanes of traffic in the Mission or on Van Ness. We are avoiding car doors, skaters, bike riders, and the person with the door open at their parked car. We can’t answer your question right now because we are busy looking at the show in front of, and up to, one-to-two blocks ahead. Now sit down and be still, please. Or as you sometimes say to us, Shut-up and drive the bus,
and Just do your job.
Surprise, surprise. We are and you’re not helping!
I am continually returned to the state of abashment at the attempts to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of my integrity and job experience. Someone enters and alights before I have a chance to answer and complains of discourtesy. A motorist rushes ahead, only to block the lane to wait for a parking space. A fixie
on his bike passes on the right and stands in the crosswalk, preventing a right turn on red. It’s an assigned penalty in a love letter that proposes no solution. The other reason for this book is to respond to the continual bombardment from the press, the public, and those in authority,
of our operators’ response, "Try a week, a day behind the wheel, and then tell me what you think!"
In the past year, I have received feedback from passengers, coworkers, and other, newer operators, and I hope this follow-up sequel answers the questions I still get about issues or topics not found in book one, Finding Zen. The glossary in the back of this sequel is a tool to help understand words with which you may be unfamiliar. A Skelley, just used above, for example, is that first part of progressive discipline between the manager, the union representative, and the self that tries to follow due process leading to the penalty box.
Fortunately, classes are given on a regular basis in the training department to keep the information fresh. We have AR training (Accident Review), VTT class (Verified Transit Training), and requalification for those who haven’t been behind the wheel for sixty days. This Line Trainer’s Guide is just another point of information to get us on the same page. When I see the small coincidence of right action and joy around me on the bus and on the street, I get such a smile and a laugh and realize I am in the right place at the right time.
This book, and the stories within its chapters are from intense passions released in the never-dull moments of driving a ten-ton vehicle on overhead wires in San Francisco. The life of a trolley operator contains all the challenge I ever need in a job. Thank you for reading. Thank you for riding!
Douglas Meriwether,
San Francisco
THE COLAS AND SALT POSSE
In receiving feedback from new operators who were interested in my first book about finding Zen, they thought that the guidebook
would contain factual information about passing the tests for getting a class B license. This chapter is a response. One of the more stressful tests in becoming a qualified operator in the state is to pass the air brake test. The air brake test can be stressful, especially if memorization skills are rusty. The acronyms, COLA, and SALT POSSE, helped me get the air brake check lined up in the correct order so the qualified state inspector would be put at ease and would, therefore, put me at ease to increase the chances of passing the test.
Knowing that COLA is the first part of the air brake test, C stands for cut-in, O for cut-out, L for LAWD, the low air warning device, and A for air or the beginning of the air leakage rate tests.
C—After chocking the rear wheel on the right, turn on master control, and between pumps in the service brake, you are lowering the air on the needle to get the compressor to cut-in and begin restoring air to the tanks. The cut-in should occur at or slightly below 85 psi (pounds per square inch), and the cut-out should be at 125 psi. During the test, you must state that you are seeing the needle start to rise to confirm that the air governor has cut in.
O—Stop pumping the brake to bleed the air, and then wait for cut-out. To confirm this and to pass the test, you must say, The needle has stopped rising. This occurs at 125 psi.
L—Now comes the low air warning device. Continue to pump and bleed so that the needles drop out of operating range and down to 55-to-75 psi. This is when an alarm should sound. Continue until the parking brake pops up at around 40 psi.
A—This is an automatic safety feature that will hold the coach when air is dropping. Let the air rebuild, and get ready to perform the air leakage rate tests, S.A.L.T. Always state air in pounds per square inch and not just say the number 85 or 125, but 85 psi or 125 psi.
SALT is an acronym for the standard air leakage test. This begins by turning off master control and placing your foot on the service brake for one minute and watching the air gauge needle to see that it does not drop more than 3 psi. [The minimum brake test, for example, where we put our foot down on the power pedal to see if the bus won’t move with the parking brake on, has been cut. The equipment from the Czech Republic, the ETI Skoda, fails this test, as the hill climber was built into the points of power on this bus. The hill climber helps us up steep hills.]
We then go on to POSSE: I am going to check my air leakage for the P, parking brake, the O, open lines, the S, static air leakage test, the S, service brake, and the E, emergency brake. The last two, S and E, are called the rolling brake tests where you accelerate and use the service brake in a smooth, controlled stop and in an abrupt stop. The emergency brake test is applied to see if the coach is held by the brakes; it used to be a part of the minimum brake test whereby you would put on the parking brake and then depress the power pedal to see if the bus would roll or not. But if you do state the items of POSSE to the instructor, you let him know that you’ve been around a while and have knowledge of the requirements of previous years.
I would always be confused about the word static. What the heck does that mean? When coupled with its opposite, dynamic, I realized static means not changing or not moving, like the dynamic brakes that engage after the air brakes when coming to a complete stop. The air brakes are then what hold the coach on the hill by use of the hill holder. This toggle button holds the coach by the air brakes so that you can rest your foot on the brake pedal. This switch is part of the interlock system used by the back doors and is active when the green light is on above the rear door. The door dial and hill holder both hold the coach by the air brakes, but the service brake should be used before a smooth start or stop. The rear of the coach is where the front spring is compressed or uncompressed and is the primary system for keeping the coach stopped. The secondary system is in the front. The two gauges you see on the dash have two needles. The white is always the rear. It is the primary brake system. The spring brake is another name for this white needle, primary air brake system. In older flyer coaches, the green needle is for the rear air.
The secondary system is signified by the red needle and is for the front tanks. This one is usually moving behind the other needle, depending on where the air compressor is and how far the lines and tanks are from the compressor. That loud pop you guys hear is when the tanks are full, and cut-out has been reached. This pop, however, is no longer a part of the DMV test, as other secondary systems on certain manufacturers of equipment have surge suppression for kneelers, stabilizer levelers, or water vapor dryers
that can make a similar pop sound and not reflect that the primary tank is full. Once again, the new statement you must make to the DMV State Instructor to pass the air governor cut-out test is to say, The needle has stopped rising. The pop you may or may not hear can give you the clue, but you must base your observation on the needle and not the pop.
As a motorist, I never knew that the service brake was the correct name for what most people just called the brake. The emergency brake is also called the parking brake. So I came to believe that