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So hire other bus drivers, or just have kids take the regular bus. Where I live there's no such thing as a school bus.
Hiring takes time. It also required a lot more money than was budgeted because you need people who don't have a 9-5. And lastly, not everyone lives in the city where there are buses.
Buses can function fine in towns as long as the town is designed well. Very few people live in areas too rural for public transportation to function.
Unfortunately I have to live in the real world where towns aren't designed well. Besides, the average yard in my neighborhood is 3.5 acres so general purpose public transportation wouldn't work either.
Change happens iteratively. The first step is to acknowledge the problem and adjust how future development is planned. Start with the town center and move outward from there. Giving up fixes nothing.
Yeah, in theory sure. We live in reality though
No in practice actually.
If only the world were so simple.
It actually really is that simple. Design cities and towns so that kids can safely commute to school on their own and you've solved the problem.
Except it's too late for that. The cities are already built. Fixing it would require tearing down entire cities and building new ones. Sure, you could do it one chunk of the city at a time, but doing just one city would take decades and exorbitant amounts of money.
The Netherlands did it in the 70s and plenty of cities are progressively doing it. All you're saying is, "we fucked our cities up, guess the only way forward is to double down."
A small town is 10,000-50,000 people. Average home price is $300k. There are around 2,000 towns of 10,000-50,000. That's $18,000,000,000,000 to build some of the small towns in the US to be public transportation friendly. Who gets dragged out of their homes to make room for rebuilding?
And you'll still have to problem that many people don't want to live in crowded towns. Most people that like crowded cities are already living there.
Plenty of towns that size are served well by public transportation in Europe.
What regular bus system. You guys have buses that work?