Safety first
Subtitle: a bus driver's story of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
By: John Zorman, Jr. Interview conducted by Laura McCreery in 2002. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: Zorman, John, 1922-; Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (Calif.) -- History.; Key System Transit Lines (Calif.); San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.); Transportation -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.; Bus drivers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.; People with disabilities -- Transportation -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District oral history series.
Description: Childhood in Colorado; father's work as a coal miner; military service in World War II; first job as a bus driver with Key System, 1946; job training, routes, and equipment; thoughts on the union; two-month strike, 1953; transition to all-bus fleet; advent of BART; AC Transit purchase of Key System, 1960; installation of wheelchair lifts and bicycle racks; thirty-five year safe driving award; retirement, 1985.