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Roland Perry · September 19th 17, 05:45 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 11:53:00
on Tue, 19 Sep 2017, remarked:
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:08:51
on Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Mark Bestley remarked:

From the picture, it's not actually a school bus as such, just an
ordinary double-decker bus deployed to a route aimed mainly at school
kids.

which is what a school bus is in London (and I think UK) We don't have
the silly waste of separate school buses that the US have.

Having a dedicated fleet of USA school buses is the only way to
provide the transport, because stage buses are very scarce.

And don't make the mistake of thinking they do only one return trip a
day - where I lived in the USA for a year the school buses did three
morning trips and three afternoon ones, and the school hours were
staggered to account for that - different times for Elementary,
Middle and High Schools.

In somewhat similar conditions out in the English countryside, school
buses tend to be private hire rent-a-wrecks which either spend the
rest of the day ferrying crop-pickers around, or simply sit at the
depot (well, the back of some farmyard which passes for a depot).

In slightly more urban areas they might be pressed into service doing
once-a-day OAP trips to the out-of-town supermarkets.

Most of the subsidised routes in Cambridge only run during school hours so
the buses can be used to bring kids in to school in the morning and take
them home again in the afternoon. Examples are the 114, 117, 196.

That doesn't answer the question about whether the Big Green Bus
Company will take stage fares (rather than student seasons) on whatever
school runs they do before starting the 114 Cambridge to Addenbrookes
service[1] mid-morning.

[1] Is that really in need of subsidy?

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Roland Perry