You aren’t kidding!
I am SOOOOO pissed getting behind some of these buses when I have to pick up my son (private school, right next to the publics). I could not believe this year when I realized they are stopping EVERY SINGLE DRIVEWAY (some just 50’ apart) even for middle-schoolers!
There is bus 853 which takes a straight path from the school all the way into our neighborhood to turn around and go all the way straight back - same road the whole way. Guess what? Besides the fact they let off the children (elementary) every other drive or road, it is ONLY ON ONE SIDE. So, mysteriously, 853 BYPASSES dropping off ANY of them on the way OUT from school, but only drops them off late in the run long after it turned in our neighborhood! Insane!
Never mind all the parents who wait there and hobknob together. Half of them insist on driving the kiddies all of ONE BLOCK to the stop and back (these people down the street from us). They wait in cars even on good days until the bus is there or arrives. It is absolutely pathetic.
What about the “obesity epidemic”? What about “saving gasoline”?
Insane! Absurd!
Your tax dollars at work.