Wearing earbuds, a bearded man is holding a business meeting on his phone loud enough for riders to hear from the front to the back of the bus – whether they want to or not.
Gavin Morris, sitting two seats away, stares straight ahead, his calm undisturbed. Morris, 49, is a regular on the B43, the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority’s roundtrip bus from Northampton to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
