Prices - USA - Schools consolidate bus routes, make cuts to control costs
Fuel prices have strapped districts filled with worry
Detroit,MICH,USA -Detroit Free Press, by PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKI -Aug 27, 2005: -- The wheels on the bus aren't the only things going round and round. The dials on the fuel pump are spinning, too, for school districts that face soaring costs just as children get back on the bus for a new school year... Most buses use diesel fuel, which has jumped about a dollar a gallon since last year. School districts nationally now pay an average of $2.25 to $2.40 a gallon, a figure that keeps climbing because of demand for fuel and the escalating price of crude oil... One bit of good news: Buses are the safest form of school travel, and when gas prices get this high, more teenage students ride the bus to save money, often at the behest of their parents... Robin Leeds, an industry specialist for the National School Transportation Association, which represents private school-bus contractors, said, "I think our new back-to-school slogan is, 'Fuel prices got you down? Take the school bus, and save your gas for the weekend' "...
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