In early 2011, Dorian Maxwell decided he'd rather not set foot on a Muni
bus. That's a decision thousands of fellow San Franciscans make every
day — but in Maxwell's case, it loomed larger. He was a bus driver. And
he couldn't help but observe that atop Coach
No. 5427, the electric bus he was assigned, a 600-volt conducting wire
was wrapped tightly with a jury-rigged application of what appeared to
be black plastic garbage bags.
The Glad Bag bus did not go unnoticed by other drivers. "Plastic bags
on the wires?" says one veteran operator with a laugh. "Oh, I've seen
that one." Added another, "They were just the kind of bags you'd get at Safeway."
Maxwell claims he refused to operate Coach 5427 several times,
cementing a reputation as a "troublemaker." He has since been fired as a
Muni driver, but the plastic atop the bus has outlasted him. "Those
bags have been on that bus for about a year and a half," he says. "They
are still on there now. I guarantee you that."
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