In large urban areas kids ride mass transit to school if the distance is too far to walk. I hope the dedicated transport of kids back and forth to school will some day come to be seen as an unnecessary extravagance from a cheap energy age. Transitionally, school transport and mass transport should be integrated.
Joel At 09:59 AM 7/31/08 -0700, you wrote: >You have been sent an online news article from George Frantz as a courtesy of >ithacajournal.com. > >Article Title: >Fuel spike could cost schools $40M > >To view the contents on www.ithacajournal.com, go to: >http://www.ithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AD=/200807310525/NEWS01/807310334 > > >The all-American yellow school bus and all the environmental and economic >costs associated with it are just another example of something that could >substantially disappear if we were to move away from the pattern of >scattered rural and suburban residential development and toward more >compact, sustainable communities. > >If Ithaca, T-burg, Newfield, Dryden and Groton villages accounted for 75 >to 80 percent of Tompkins County population instead of 20 to 25 percent >they actually do, that would leave both enough people living on our farms >to produce our food supply, and place our schools within walking distance >of children. > >Even assuming that the the rural Caroline and Enfield schools remain >open, ICSD could likely get by with about 25 to 30 percent of the busses >it now has to put on the road. > >Extrapolated across the country, the economic savings and the reduction in >environmental degradation would be tremendous. > > >George Frantz > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, >please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > >RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >[email protected] >http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
