Stick a bus stop somewhere in walking distance and run that route based on need. Like my parents live on a farm about 6km out of town and there’s a bus stop right near the house that bus goes twice per day and adults can ride it too.
Where in walking distance? We have miles of unpaved road here with few homes on them and acres of farmland. I don’t think you understand just how large the U.S. is.
If you live like 4 hours from the nearest settlement then you’re fucked either way, school bus or not but those people are in the vast minority everywhere in the world. Walking distance is around 30 minutes on foot in my opinion. Busses work on gravel road, the road in front of my parents house was gravel until recently.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Stick a bus stop somewhere in walking distance and run that route based on need. Like my parents live on a farm about 6km out of town and there’s a bus stop right near the house that bus goes twice per day and adults can ride it too.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Where in walking distance? We have miles of unpaved road here with few homes on them and acres of farmland. I don’t think you understand just how large the U.S. is.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you live like 4 hours from the nearest settlement then you’re fucked either way, school bus or not but those people are in the vast minority everywhere in the world. Walking distance is around 30 minutes on foot in my opinion. Busses work on gravel road, the road in front of my parents house was gravel until recently.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re not fucked if the school bus, which is required by law to go to you, goes to you. Which is how it is now.
And it was -20 F / -28 C here a few days ago. You expect a six-year-old to take a 30-minute walk in that weather? Really?