On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:12:09 -0700, "Alice, SWMBO"
wrote:
>"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
>
>> You mean - there's *lots* of kids to transport ?
>
>> Haven't you heard of 'double decker buses' ? We have them in the UK btw.
>You
>> may know them as 'London buses'. Carry around 70 pax.
>
>> They have even bigger ones in HK btw. Max pax up to around 130 persons !
>
>> Now tell me a 130 seater bus can't cope.
>
>It's not the size of the bus that's the issue. It's the extensive routes
>that must be run. If you put all the kids on one bus going to three
>different destinations and all the schools start at the same time, you still
>have to start before the crack of dawn in order to pick up all the kids and
>make three dropoffs, being sure to get the last third to their school on
>time....which, remember, starts at the same time as the first school. And
>then reverse the process in the afternoon. Don't forget that it can take
>10-15 minutes at each school just to get the buses loaded. Don't you want
>to be in that first group? Now *everyone* has a very long day. If you put
>them all on the same bus and still stagger the start times to account for
>the extra distances between schools, you'll have the first group spending a
>whole lot of extra time on that bus waiting for the other two groups to
>finish, both in the morning and afternoon.
>
>Since you seem to have all the answers, I am just shocked that your services
>haven't been demanded as a visiting urban planner.
Or a paper weight.
Jerry
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