Ex-convict and Metrobus Driver Sidney Davis Gives Back to D.C.

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

"While riding a Metrobus recently," wrote Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy, "I watched the driver help a blind man find a seat, then help him off the bus, wave oncoming traffic to a halt and escort him — arm in arm — to the other side of the street." The driver was Sidney Davis (right), whom Milloy first met in 1981 when he was an inmate at the Lorton Correctional Complex, nine years into a 20-years-to-life sentence for murder. Davis became a born-again Christian, earned a GED and later a bachelor’s degree through the University of the District of Columbia’s prison college program and now drives the U2 bus from the Anacostia Metro station in Southeast to the Minnesota Avenue Metro station in Northeast. He's also one of ATU Local 689's most active members. “Sidney is a delightful brother who has given so much back to those less fortunate,” says Local 689 President Jackie Jeter. “Local 689 and WMATA are better because of his contributions, whether it's collecting food donations for the striking New York transit workers, feeding the elderly at Thanksgiving and Christmas, or his unquenchable thirst to help young people.” - photo by Courtland Milloy/The Washington Post