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Yellow schoolbus Transportation is one of the best
deals your community receives for their tax dollar.
Yellow school bus transportation is the safest, most economical and
friendly method of transporting California's school children.
Every day California parents send almost a million of their children to
a local school bus stop... with peace of mind. The school
transportation community in California has earned the rights of trust
because:
According to the National Safety
Council
in 1996, Yellow School buses are:
- 172 times safer than your family automobile
- 8 times safer than passenger trains
- 4 times safer than transit buses
- 4 times safer than intercity buses
- 8 times safer than scheduled airlines
The Department of Transportation requires many
additional safety features be built into every school bus which are not
found on any other public or private vehicle.
MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE
SCHOOL BUS DRIVER'S are required by law
to receive more training than any other driver in the State. A School
bus driver receives training in student management and first aid. A
school bus driver's background is checked by the Department of Justice
and/or the FBI prior to receiving a license to drive a school bus.
School bus stops are strictly regulated by laws. Procedures to load and
unload the students are also regulated by laws. School bus drivers are
regulated by hundreds of additional laws governing the operation and
maintenance of a school bus. School Bus drivers receive so much
original and continual training, that a school bus driver can legally
drive any bus on the roadways.
PUBLIC TRANSIT BUS DRIVER'S are not
required by law to undergo a criminal background check before/after
driving the bus. Public transit bus drivers are not required to be
trained on how to care and handle YOUR child. Imagine placing your
young child on a city bus with a bus load of strange adults, in a bus
that stops to load and unload everywhere in the city, where your child
can get off the bus at any location with any person.
YOUR PERSONAL FAMILY CAR:
Statistics show that School Buses are 172 times safer than your family
car. Most family car drivers receive Driver's Education as a teenager
or Traffic School due to a citation or other circumstances, other than
that, NO formal driving training is required.
California state law does not mandate home to school transportation
except for special education.
In 1996 over 300 million miles were driven by
California Schoolbuses with out one pupil passenger fatality.
Give your opinion to your state legislatures to
enact legislation which will permanently establish, protect and fully
fund home to school transportation for your children.
It's the law!
STOP!
When Red Lights Flash.
California's school transportation system is
the largest mass transportation system in the state. Over 25,000 school
buses provide approximately three million passenger rides each school
day. On an annual basis California school buses travel over 334 million
miles and provide over a half billion passenger rides.
The state provides less than 50% of the money actually used to
transport students which results in school districts funding
schoolbuses out of monies which could be used for teachers, books and
classroom construction.
During 1995 California had a school bus injury rate which decreased by
over 11% from 1994.
Student enrollment transported on California Schoolbuses is 17.1%, the
National average is 54%.
DID YOU REALIZE...? School enrollment in the
United States will increase 33 percent between 1990 and 2030. This will
add 4 million additional children by 2005 and 15 million by 2030.
The school transportation industry provides 10 billion students rides
annually--this is the largest form of public transportation in the
United States.
There are over 400,000 school buses operating each school day in the
United States.
School bus drivers log over 4 billion miles each school year.
There are 50 million children in public and private schools--yellow
school buses transport half of this number every day.
The Accident and injury rate of yellow school buses in the United
States makes the Yellow Schoolbus the safest ride in America!
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