They're among 50 Kitsap Transit worker-driver bus drivers and backups being honored by the agency this month. Last year, their buses carried 235,000 riders 244,000 miles without an accident. They take it so seriously. They pride themselves in coming through in the snow or adverse conditions. They have a can-do attitude.
Accidents are rare.
And last year, they were nonexistent. They're very careful. They really have earned it. The program is a model of efficiency. Its buses are early 1970s models retired from Bay Area routes during the mid-1980s.