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This RTS driver tries to spread holiday cheer every day via his bus header

This RTS driver tries to spread holiday cheer every day via his bus header

 


For a Gainesville bus driver, it’s holiday season all year round.

From January to December, Steven Sowders displays “Happy Holidays” on the header of his bus to celebrate a national holiday, big or small, every day.

Sowders has worked for the Gainesville Regional Transit System for nearly eight years. For most of that time, he picks out his favorite holiday daily, like National Pepperoni Pizza Day, and wishes Route 127 passengers happy holidays as they get off the bus. I thought it was a good way to cheer people up, Sowders said.

He got the idea while listening to the radio, where an announcer would sometimes shout out holidays. It took him a while to remember to look up the holidays every day, but it has since become a habit.

Happy Homemade Bread Day! Sowders said Thursday as Andresa Freitas, a Gainesville resident and former University of Florida student, got off the bus.

He’s really nice, Freitas said. He always has this positive energy around him.

Along with cheering on the riders, Sowders always tries to be kind to his passengers and build a personal connection with them.

He has conversations with passengers like Veronica Nocera, a junior at UF, who has been riding the 127 for about a year. He’s even received official compliments from riders via comment cards that drivers can hand out.

I feel like he recognizes me, Nocera said. Maybe he doesn’t, but it feels good to know he might.

Sowders even teaches vacations in sign language for a deaf passenger.

She usually laughs at me when I tell her, he said. Then she gets off the bus and thanks him.

For some, however, the cheery greetings from the Sowders aren’t reason enough to take the bus.

Neha Dakshit, another UF student, noted that the bus stops for long periods at a bus stop.

At that time, I walk home, she said.

Sowders does this to meet schedules, he said on Apple Cider Day, Nov. 18. This is a very common practice for bus drivers, as they are told that it is better to run a little late than to be early and cause the bus to be missed.

Prior to starting with RTS, Sowders worked as an on-and-off nurse for 30 years. When he worked at night, he would say hello when he arrived in the afternoon, always making his colleagues laugh. Between nursing jobs, he drove a school bus.

He moved from Naples to Lake Butler with his family, and soon after started driving for RTS. He makes it a point to say hello to everyone when they board his bus, no matter what time of day.

It’s morning somewhere, he said once corrected.

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