Talking Transportation 2024
Solution to the ‘SUV Parade’ to and from Schools: Two Feet and Sidewalks
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In our small town we call it “The SUV Parade”, the weekday ritual-like procession homing in on a handful of targets, carrying that most precious of cargos — our kids — heading to school. But why the private car parade when the town already spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on school buses? Why aren’t the kids on the yellow buses? Sure, sometimes they have early activities or don’t want to shlep their tuba on the bus. But often its because the kids don’t think its cool to “bus” when mom (or increasingly, work-from-home dads) can drive them?