What Am I About

This is my intent

Bus Driver Dan is a working-life media project centered on real experience behind the wheel of public transit. It is not a brand built around hot takes, outrage, or performance. It is a public record of a job, a city, and the people moving through it.

The project exists to document, reflect on, and humanize bus driving and transit from the operator’s seat. It treats the bus as a moving cross-section of the city and the driver as both participant and witness. The emphasis is on observation, responsibility, patience, fatigue, humor, dignity, and the quiet systems that keep cities running.

This is not journalism in the traditional sense, and it is not stand-up comedy. It is narrative, observational, reflective storytelling grounded in real work, told calmly and without exaggeration. Humor emerges naturally from reality. Emotion is handled with restraint. Nothing is rushed for virality.

The voice of the project is earned experience. Nineteen years of driving is treated as institutional memory, not authority to lecture. The show assumes the audience is intelligent and curious, whether or not they care about buses when they arrive.

The core intent of the project is:
– To give bus drivers a voice that feels accurate and respectful
– To help riders understand what they do not see
– To preserve moments, routines, and truths that usually disappear at the end of a shift
– To explore how cities feel from inside essential work

The project values:
– Anonymity and privacy
– Accuracy over speed
– Calm over outrage
– Empathy without sentimentality
– Sustainability over growth at all costs

The project deliberately avoids:
– Real-time incidents
– Identifiable passengers, coworkers, routes, or locations
– Employer commentary or internal policy disputes
– Political baiting or performative anger
– Exploiting trauma for engagement

Bus Driver Dan is designed to be sustainable alongside full-time work, fingers crossed. It respects energy limits and treats longevity as success. Growth is welcome but not required for the project to be considered worthwhile.

The intended outcome is not fame, but a durable body of work: a catalog of stories, reflections, and observations that could exist as audio, video, archive, or reference years from now.

At its core, Bus Driver Dan answers one question repeatedly, from many angles:

“What does it feel like to be responsible for a moving piece of the city?”

Thank you for joining me on this journey.

— Dan Christensen