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Portland Public Schools and Tri-Met (local authority that runs the buses) let high school students travel for free. That's because PPS doesn't provide yellow bus service for students in high school.

One of my daughters did Tri-Met as a 7th Grader because it saved more than 30 minutes over the yellow bus. Taking the bus seems a lot less convenient than driving most of the time but for her it was faster. I took the bus with her the first day and she was fine after that. No bad experiences that I ever heard of.

When we were in Japan, we saw many students of all ages on the trains.

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I wonder if (or hope that) filling public transit with kids would help convince people to fund better and safer public transit systems.

if children's needs were taken into account when designing transit systems, then school buses wouldn't be taking kids to school at 7 a.m.

Isn't this only older cohorts? (Though ironically it may be the teens who need to sleep in the most.)

I believe it's done as a cost cutting measure to maximize usage of the bus fleet.

sure, but my point is that despite all the rhetoric, when it comes to actually spending money, kids seem to get the short end of the stick.

the yellow bus system is arguably the world's largest public transit system and is something Americans don't realize other countries don't have

Sweden uses both private and public transportation to transport kids (skolskjuts) who live far away from school and it's free by law. In Stockholm most kids simply get an electronic smart card that allows them to use all public transportation as they see fit within school hours. Again, it's free for students who live beyond walking distance (and according to other needs) from school.

Other countries have... Public transit systems!

Other countries dont have a need for Safari stream cross capable trucks in their cities. WTF is this https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/ce2176c/2147483647... https://www.123rf.com/photo_121378720_yellow-school-bus-in-h... ?? and what is it doing in downtown Manhattan?

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