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Philadelphia Schools Are Making Student Transportation Worse (www.strongtowns.org)
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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 1 points 1 year ago

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.