Philadelphia Schools Are Making Student Transportation Worse

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/9/22/how-philadelphia-schools-are-making-student-transportation-worse

Like many other places around the U.S., Philadelphia is facing school bus driver shortages and bus scheduling issues. Its solution? Offer $300 per month to families that drive their children to school.

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

As a person who graduated out of the Philadelphia school system... only a handful of kids got access to a bus. Even in the 90s, I was given a pack of septa tokens at age 8 to ride public transportation.