In message <9pWXe.20103$h02.3336@tornado.texas.rr.com> "Frank F.
Matthews" wrote:
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>DevilsPGD wrote:
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>> The routes were reasonably optimized to reduce needless back and forth
>> trips, although it does still happen.
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>> Even so though, this isn't a problem solved by more buses. Bigger buses
>> might help -- But although a junior high school could easily fill
>> several buses, elementary schools are typically much smaller and only
>> have 1-3 buses each, so a larger number of small buses is still more
>> efficient (because each bus travels a relatively small area, rather then
>> having to drive right past the school or do a spiral or something
>> similar)
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>You must be thinking of immense busses or very tiny schools. A single
>school bus holds 1 - 1.5 classrooms of kids. Even is you manage routes
>filled to capacity in an urban area you would need 10 or more busses for
>a typical elementary school and more like 50 for a high school with 20
>or so for a junior high.
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We typically have elementary schools scattered around widely enough that
most children can walk, so the number of buses is reasonably low vs the
number of students that get bused to other levels.
I can walk to three different elementary schools within 15 minutes (I
happen to be almost exactly between them)
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