This Philly bus driver is also a substitute teacher and public transit activist


By AGENCY
  • People
  • Saturday, 27 Apr 2024

McKnight drives the Navy Yard bus year round and the Philly Phlash bus April through September. Photos: Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

Marcus McKnight’s fascination with public transportation began when he was growing up on a quiet block in Philadelphia city's Logan neighbourhood in Pennsylvania, the United States. Riding Septa gave him a window to the world, or at least, to Philadelphia.

Sure, that window may have been scratched and smudged sometimes, but it never dulled McKnight’s curiosity.

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