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August 24, 2006
The wheels on the busIt was bound to happen. Even BoardBuzz has gotten sucked into the gas-price vortex. CNN.com notes that due to rising gas prices, more students (or their parents) are opting for the bus as a means to get to school. The once derided cheese box is now a preferred method for getting to and from school.
"Most weekday afternoons, Patricia Israel waits in her front yard for the school bus to drop off her 6-year-old twin sons. The boys beg to ride the bus every day, which Israel said is fine with her. She sees it as environmentally sound transportation that reduces traffic on the streets and at the school."
Las Vegas's Clark County school district has seen a jump in ridership to nearly 45 percent of the city's students. Phoenix is also seeing bus ridership grow as its school district expands. And in the fast-growing Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga., the district touts "the environmental advantages of the bus system and sponsors a 'bus ridership week' each semester when bus riders get candy and prizes."
"We try to just create an awareness of the fact that car vapors impact the quality of our air—the fewer vehicles on the road the better," Janette Shealy, a teacher in Alpharetta, said. "Plus, you're never tardy when you ride the bus."
It's good to know that the wheels on the bus really do go 'round and 'round, all around the town.
Posted August 24, 2006 2:56 PM | Students
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