School buses for high school students
From:
Cam Gordon
Date:
Oct 11 16:01 UTC
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It sounds like we should look into changeing this federal law. It should be
part of both the School Board and the City Council's legislative agendas. I
don't see any problem with competing with private users, but obviously it will
(and should) compete with the private school bus operators.
Cam Gordon
Seward
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:58:38 +0000> To: <email obscured>>
Subject: Re: [Mpls] School buses for high school students> From:
<email obscured>> > WIZARD MARKS <wizardmarks@q.com> said:> > > Which
brings up a question that has nagged me for a long time: why do high> school
students have daily school buses? Or, why aren't high school students> using
the city bus system? They are old enough to be able to do that. It would> be
yards cheaper to give the kids discounted bus cards and have them use the> city
system.> > Lifted from the Federal Transit Administration website: > > "Federal
transit laws and regulations place limitations on the use of public>
transportation to transport students to and from school and school-sponsored >
activities or trips in competition with private transportation providers.> > In
general, recipients of Federal Transit Administration grants cannot provide>
transportation for students and school personnel if that transportation>
excludes the general public or competes with private school bus operators."> >
Read more at: > >
http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/SchoolBusBrochureJanuary19-2005.pdf> > Yes it
would be much cheaper for public buses to add this service onto their>
portfolio of services and just divert existing public buses to do this. But>
federal law prohibits it. > > Carol Becker> Longfellow> > > > Carol Becker>
Longfellow, Minneapolis> Info about Carol Becker:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/carolbecker> > This topic's messages may be
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