Comment on School pickup lines are wild
tyler@programming.dev 21 hours agoEven if they’re within walking range only 25% of kids walk. 50% are driven by private car, and 25% take the bus. So you literally have 50% of kids that are within walking range still getting dropped off/picked up by private vehicle.
For your other use cases, that’s why other countries use public transit rather than publicly funded school buses that only run twice a day. It’s just a massive waste of money.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 18 hours ago
Well that’s fun data. The very bottom of the page links to the raw dataset.
This country also uses public buses in some areas. Where I grew up the school board staggered starts so the school busses are used most of the day.
tyler@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Yeah the truth of the matter is, people use cars because they have them. If they didn’t have them things would be a lot different. You can see that by looking at the data on that link as well. 70% of impoverished children ride the school bus. So not only are those kids disadvantaged with money, but they’re disadvantaged with the situations you’re talking about with after school activities as well. Public transit would be better for everyone here. We wouldn’t be funding these school buses that might ride empty, taxpayer dollars would be able to be reallocated to the actual teaching in the school or even better public transit. A small portion of that would go to the impoverished or those that can’t take public transit.