Melvin Riley was driving the Park & Ride 204 Spring bus on the HOV lane when a scream pieced the air. A gentleman had suddenly suffered a seizure. "My first thought was to get the bus off the HOV lane," recalls Riley, 54, of the March incident. "The reason being there was no way we could help him on the HOV. ...

    Two minutes after bus operator Jacqueline Cooper pulled out of the Townsen Park & Ride lot, her 17 years of bus driving skills were about to be tested in a life-or-death incident. She had just loaded about 40 passengers on the 257 Townsen P & R when she noticed a motorcyclist trying to enter the HOV lane from the Park ...

  Meet our next "Hero on Wheels." Sean Hill has been driving a bus for METRO for almost a decade. Last fall, Hill became an instant hero to a young boy in crisis. The single father of three girls - ages 17, 15 and 2 - was driving the 80 Dowling/Lyons route when he noticed a three-year-old boy walking alone around a bus stop on ...

  The men and women who drive our buses more than 500 square miles every day see and hear all sorts of things - including emergencies. And sometimes they commit extraordinary acts while on the job - things that are truly above and beyond the call of duty. We want to honor these drivers who do heroic acts. We are calling them "Heroes ...