Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children
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Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Do you not understand what a school buses job is? That route changes every year and not everyone lives where you can expect kids to be able walk to a high traffic bus stop.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      That route changes every year and not everyone lives where you can expect kids to be able walk to a high traffic bus stop.

      If you had proper public transport that number would be quite negligible. Very very occasionally you see dedicated school buses in rural areas in Germany: Minivans. Which makes sense as boondonks areas might not have bus service but have collect taxis as only public transport, which generally are also minivans. Think living in a village of 50 and going to a school in another village, population of 2k or so. The scale of Wacken, maybe a bit smaller. Let me see… Yeah Bokelrehm doesn’t have a bus station. OTOH it’s like a kilometre from the school in Wacken so kids are probably biking (“Grundschule Wacken”, northern end of the village on the road to Bokelrehm).

      Usually the most that happens is that a regular bus service gets a doubled-up schedule when school starts and ends.