'I watched passengers grow up in my bus': Bus captain of 53 years looks back on career
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A bus can represent many things for many different people. For some, it's simply a way to get from point A to point B. Others see it as a place to be alone with their thoughts as they stare pensively out the window. For Mr Ong Guan Beng, it's been his &laqu'I watched passengers grow up in my bus': Bus captain of 53 years looks back on career
A bus can represent many things for many different people. For some, it's simply a way to get from point A to point B. Others see it as a place to be alone with their thoughts as they stare pensively out the window. For Mr Ong Guan Beng, it's been his «office» for the past 53 years. «I've seen some passengers since they were in primary school, until they went to university and became doctors - it's like I watched them grow up in my bus,» he said. The 74-year-old bus captain first started his career with SBS Transit as a bus conductor. He was just 21 years old at the time. In 1975, when the bus conductor role was phased out, Mr Ong trained to become a bus driver. From the moment he got behind the wheel, he took to the job like a duck to water. He enjoyed the routine of getting up early in the morning, going to the interchange and starting up his bus to take passengers wherever they were headed - as long as it was on his route. And it was along that route that he would meet the love of his life, Ms Low Ah Nia. Read more