No school bus stops? I have just noticed that we have to build more school to connect education to all of the city rather being able to place school bus stops
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No school bus stops?
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You know that northern europe is still part of europe? Also, I do live in the middle of europe and seen a big part of it, so i do know a little bit about it. Sure some countries and very densely populated, but in every bigger country in europe there are areas where not many people live, villages and towns where you have to drive quite a long way to get to the city etc.
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Must be your thing, where i live there isn't even 1km of road without some village, unless you're on highway.
Very true. It also goes by age. Last year, my daughter was able to take the bus. This year, as she is older, she has to get there by other means (and this is still elementary school).
Also, the school bus stops and routes change every year depending on where students are from, they are by no means as static as public transit routes. I would be fine with school buses in the game, just let them choose their own routes. Our mayer has nothing to do with the schoolbus routes and stops in our city.
Most smaller cities and certainly towns and villages don't have "regular" public transit bus systems. At least in the state of Michigan just about every public school system has school buses, even in bigger cities with public bus system. Especially when most students live out in rural areas 5-15 miles from the school.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/EU_NUTS_2_population_density_2007.svg
This is from the year 2007, but it's still pretty accurate. Our thing is different from your thing, apparently. Do you happen to live in Southern Britain, West Germany, the Benelux countries or Italy?
Close, GM and Ford purchased the trams in order to replace them with buses made by them. I believe they were fined $1 when it was all over but I'd have to check that.
Sounds like school busses are something more common to us in the states. (I learned something new!) so I can see why they might be missing. Even so, school busses and their routes are controlled by the school and their own elected board which is not a function of the city government anyway.
Sounds interesting. Here in Finland all students are on the whim of the bus companies and their routes can be very crappy.
Except that taxi companies are also used widely. Usually in smaller towns though.
And this is paid by the public. If you have more than 10km or something like that to school you'll get picked up for free. Because you're required by the law to stay in school until 16 years old, the state also pays for transit until then.
I guess it's still cheaper than to run stupidly small schools in some backwater suburb.
It's quite close to "demand/invite based transport" that's in right now. You order in advance and they can pick you up basically from your doorway. It's something between taxis and regular route buses. With smaller and more nimble vehicles.
It's something that is seen as a necessity to make not owning cars possibility. The same scheme might include a shared normal car for some larger pool of customers.
Actually the quoted part is wrong. In all proper sized towns bus companies don't control the things. The municipalities design the routes and leave the thing for public tenders. Then someone wins the contract and gets to operate on the route (actually it's chopped into many parts that can have different winners).
But only a few years ago it was common to see schemes where the municipality just issued permits to operate public transport in their area. That was the time when we more or less had to adjust to the whims of bus companies. But EU-legislation forced the change.
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Not everywhere. In NYC there is no elected school board, the mayor controls the schools and there is a separate commission that contracts the buses and determines their route.
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As a New Yorker, I can confirm. And since New York City is wholly covered by mass transit alternatives, there's no official reason to have a full-fledged school bus system.
As Lord_P already said, you must be living in Benelux or some other very densely populated area, there is plenty of countries where you can drive a looong way without seeing something more than a house here and there. In countries like Poland, Ukraine, France, Finland, Sweden etc you can see that, even though some of them are marked all red on the map.