Backfill · 2025
#38 of 383Night Bus Window Seat
Press shot: the interior of a city bus at night seen from a window seat, with streaks of colored light from storefronts and streetlamps visible through the tinted glass, empty rows of fabric seats in the foreground.
A night bus through downtown has wide windows tinted dark enough from the outside that nobody can see in. From the inside the city is all streetlights and neon reflected on wet pavement, and I want to ride it every time it rains. Seats are fabric and worn thin at the edges, and the bus smells like cleaning solution and the faint sweetness of someone's takeout from 3 stops ago. The route runs from campus to the waterfront and the fare is free for students after 8 PM. The bus is always a mix of people going out and people coming home.