In message , at 09:19:09 on Thu, 13 Nov 2008,
John Rowland remarked:
What about those who don't live on a school bus route?

School bus routes are remarkably pervasive.

Maybe America doesn't have lots of narrow cul-de-sacs, like England.

The bit I lived in did. But there was one "through route" off of which
all those cul-de-sacs sprang. So if the bus stopped at the junction with
each cul-de-sac it was effective in mopping up all the schoolkids.

The objective isn't to collect every kid from its doorstep, five minutes
walk away is considered satisfactory.
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Roland Perry