TrashFuture recently talked about some private school bus company that’s going to “disrupt” the school bus industry by union busting and gig-ifying drivers:
https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/damming-the-amazon-feat-alex-press/
The concept of school buses in itself is insane and a sign of a car dependant nightmare infested hell scape. Good riddance. Motherfucker, everyone bikes to school here, or (rarely) just use public transport which is fucking free for students.
I was biking myself to school and back home from like fourth grade. When you create a shithole where you can barely even safely walk you get insanity like picking children up at home in a fucking BUS, everyday. Fuck, I wonder why Americans have such a high carbon foot print. Oh my god the waste.
Edit: You guys have real America brain on this topic. Sorry but it’s true.
The ‘us is big’ is the biggest bullshit excuse for your shitty ass infrastructure and society that there is. And it’s used for literally everything.
Who the fuck lives 40 miles away from school? what the fuck, lmao. Just build a local town primary school holy shit. My primary school had like 6 classrooms and I had like 10 classmates. It’s not an excuse.
You fuckers really stole all that land so you could drive 40 miles to school? What the ever loving fuck.
Oh shit never thought about not living far away from things, guess I just have to vote harder or personally build a school next door and hope teachers show up
Yeah, I tend to agree. Australia has 3 people per km^2 vs the US 35 per km^2, in approximately the same area.
It does have schools that far away from farms but it’s fairly rare in the main rural regions with towns every 50km apart at most, and in the real outback where you have cattle stations the size of Belgium they use School of the Air. It’s not that hard, you just have to have good planning.
edit: We do have some urban school buses, of course, but they’re run by the state and staffed by public employees, and a good chunk of kids take standard services for free. The idea a city could be “out of drivers” is absurd.
“All of the small schools were closed and consolidated into one school” is pretty common in the USA.
Rural areas have cheaper property (and lower property taxes, which is a large part of how schools are paid for in the USA) which means not enough money to maintain schools for fewer and fewer students as families with some money/decent paying jobs move to the cities. This leads to a handful of well off kids and bunch of poor kids needing to be transported to school someway that doesn’t leave a bunch of kids pretty much living at school.
From my life, my mom left for work at 4:30~5:00 AM and got back from work around 6PM. Which was a few hours before the bus came by to pick me up and a few hours after I got back home from school. If she were to drive me to school and pick me up from school… I’d probably be picked up by the police or child protective services as I would just always be sitting outside of school, rain, snow, heat, etc.
So… mass transit… is bad now?
I’m confused.
Also, a chunk of those kids were being transported 10’s of miles away from home to their school. Probably asking a kid to wake up a few extra hours earlier to bike 30 miles to school is kinda … I don’t know… shitty for the kids.
I think their point is that we’ve designed cities poorly if kids need to be bused 30 miles to school. Sure it’s necessary for rural schools, but the post is about Pittsburgh so these are urban/suburban schools we’re talking about.
With the slightest amount of planning we could have students within a few miles of a school, and when they’re further it’s not hard to have the regular transit system pick up the slack.
Yeah, on one hand I get that they were trying to dunk on America’s unwillingness to plan for things but the framing just off enough that I felt the need to add some extra context.
If housing were guaranteed and a local population would be willing the change houses as their life situations changed, that’d be pretty cool too.
Many students in my school walked or used public transport because school buses are significantly more expensive.
Wait wait wait, did your school charge for the school bus?
Well, you can’t enjoy sane and decent infrastructure, but at least you got to see me ratiod! Won’t you look at that. :amerikkka-clap:
The time of fucking around is nearing its end. We enter the period of finding out.
I’ve heard School buses are a fucking pain in the dick to drive, that plus having to deal with screaming sperm goblins makes it sound like an extremely stressful job. Plus you gotta watch out for trains
The pay is shit, constant drug testing, and it is always part time.
Who the fuck wants to drive some brats around for $12/hr atm?
Depends on where you live in the US.
Some states average $40-50k a year for bus drivers.
Others are half of that.
