@markstos@urbanists.social meanwhile, I live in a US city where there are almost no school buses. Kids walk up to half a mile to school in elementary school or they take the regular city bus (for free). I have 5th graders holding hands with pre-schoolers on the other side of the city navigating the bus and its stops and changes all the way to school and back. Most of them can do it! (attendance would be better with real buses though)