Technology
Introduction
Technology in the GRTC continues to advance. Transit in Richmond began with street/rail cars. Over time, public transportation in Richmond shifted to buses. Technology has also allowed for better operation of buses.Today, mechanics have access to diagnostic testing that identifies any damage done to the bus. No matter how evolved the technology becomes, mechanics really make the company run and without them there would be no GRTC.
GRTC Repair Shop Mechanic Jeff Williams. Photo courtesy of GRTC.
Grinding bus motor cylinders at Richmond shops, 1931. Photo courtesy of Emerson “Roy” Seitter.
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So it was about two years before we came here. Back in ’74 when I came, the company worked on everything, repaired everything.
We even made our own tool boxes when I came here. We didn’t buy hardly anything. Those old paper cutters downstairs on the big rows, I made those… The trash cans that used to go on the bus, we used to make those. On the older buses, some of the window latches we made. The windows, just about all the glass we used to cut.
John Braxton
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It was just nothing that we didn’t make.
John Braxton