Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
BUSES PURCHASE * USA: 20 plus new school vehicles
* North Carolina - Horry County Schools eying 20 replacement school buses
-- Horry County School’s fleet of 109 district-owned buses might be getting an upgrade soon... The district plans to bring a recommendation to the Board of Education at their next meeting for 20 new buses, said John Gardner, chief financial officer for the district... All the buses will be funded through the general fund, and the district has already set aside $840,000 for the replacements. The board has also planned to replace 10 buses during the 2015-16 school year, Gardner said... Horry County Schools’ buses travel 33,888 miles per day and rack up 61.1 million miles every year, according to district data. About 22,500 students ride the bus, and the district has about 373 drivers... Officials hope to have 30 new buses operating for the 2015-2016 school year, if the board approves the budget as currently proposed, Gardner said... The district will make a recommendation for 20 new buses at the board’s next meeting on March 23...
(Photo by Janet Blackmon Morgan / The Sun News - Horry County Schools buses) -- Horry_County, South Carolina, USA - The Myrtle Beach On Line, by Claire Byun - 11 March 2015Labels: buses purchasing, busmakers news USA, school buses funds
SCHOOL BUS SYSTEMS * USA
* South Carolina - Old school buses
Charleston,SC,USA -WCSC/Live 5 News, by Raphael James -Nov 24, 2014: -- Funding delays mean South Carolina is lagging in efforts to replace aging school buses in a timely manner... With a fleet of buses that are among the oldest in the country, that means some buses taking children to school today may have been ridden by those students' parents or grandparents... State School Superintendent, Mick Zais, testified to the state senate that, "South Carolina maintains the only state run school bus fleet in America. It's also the oldest" fleet in America... The General Assembly provides and maintains buses for every school district in the state. Those buses, aren't always brand spanking new. In fact most of them are not. State law says the bus fleet is to be replaced every 15 years. But Zais says, more than 60% of our buses are over 15 years old... Almost 100 of them are more than 26 years old... He says to replace the more than 3,000 buses statewide that are older than 15 years old would cost the state $273 million. For the past two years he's asked the General Assembly for $34 million and received less than that for buses each time... Labels: older buses, school buses funds
BUDGET * Australia - Phantom bus rides cost $100m
Sydney,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Anna Patty -November 7, 2008: -- More than $200 million of the State Government school transport subsidy is spent on unused bus rides and providing free bus travel for students who bypass public schools to attend private schools, an analysis of Department of Transport figures shows... The analysis indicates that of the $470 million it spent on the transport subsidy scheme this year, the State Government paid school bus operators more than $100 million for student rides that were not taken... The Greens MP John Kaye said an estimated $125 million was spent on students riding past their nearest public school to attend a private school...Labels: school buses funds
Federal Funding * USA - Group argues for school buses
Washington,DC,USA -WTHR (Indianapolis,IN), by Tom Walker -Apr 9, 2007: -- The American School Bus Council is invoking some frightening scenarios in an effort to secure funding from Washington... The American school bus is 15 times safer than riding in the family car, but it's an expense that some say school systems are finding harder to afford... Peter Japiske heads the American School Bus Council, which wants Washington to begin subsidizing school buses, something that has always been left to local schools. One place he's looking for money: the budget for Homeland Security... School transportation officials have recommended school buses be included in the highest risk category for Homeland Security...Labels: school buses funds
* USA - Buses as billboards raising .$.$.
... It's a sign of the times - literally...Florence,AZ,USA -Casa Grande Valley Newspapers (Casa Grande,AZ) -28 Feb 2007: -- Nearly one year ago, Mark Lamas, transportation director for the Florence Unified School District, began looking into a unique opportunity to raise much-needed revenue. His research led him to the concept of paid advertising on the district's school buses... After seeing the results of successful school bus messaging in Tucson and
Scottsdale, Lamas submitted a proposal to do the same to the FUSD board, which approved a motion to pursue a contract with Media Advertising in Motion during his Feb. 14 meeting... "No one really voiced any objections. The idea was very well received by the district office," Lamas said, adding that the estimated annual revenues ranging between $6,700 and $80,000 stated on the agenda submission was not a misprint...Labels: school buses funds
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Washington,DC,USA -WTHR (Indianapolis,IN), by Tom Walker -Apr 9, 2007: -- The American School Bus Council is invoking some frightening scenarios in an effort to secure funding from Washington... The American school bus is 15 times safer than riding in the family car, but it's an expense that some say school systems are finding harder to afford... Peter Japiske heads the American School Bus Council, which wants Washington to begin subsidizing school buses, something that has always been left to local schools. One place he's looking for money: the budget for Homeland Security... School transportation officials have recommended school buses be included in the highest risk category for Homeland Security...
