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Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. (grist.org)

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Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That route changes every year and not everyone lives where you can expect kids to be able walk to a high traffic bus stop.

If you had proper public transport that number would be quite negligible. Very very occasionally you see dedicated school buses in rural areas in Germany: Minivans. Which makes sense as boondonks areas might not have bus service but have collect taxis as only public transport, which generally are also minivans. Think living in a village of 50 and going to a school in another village, population of 2k or so. The scale of Wacken, maybe a bit smaller. Let me see... Yeah Bokelrehm doesn't have a bus station. OTOH it's like a kilometre from the school in Wacken so kids are probably biking ("Grundschule Wacken", northern end of the village on the road to Bokelrehm).

Usually the most that happens is that a regular bus service gets a doubled-up schedule when school starts and ends.