I spent 17 hours on a bus for Marissa and andrew for XMas

I went to new york to see some of my favorite people in the world this past christmas. It was a magical time, full of blokus, house rules, burlesque and most annoyingly, 2 long bus rides. The ride to new york was about 6 hours and the ride home about 11 due to traffic and snow. Needless to say, if I never take a bus again I will be a happy girl. Nonetheless, I am sure you see where this post is going for today's trivia.....

 

• Approximately 480,000 yellow school buses carry 25 million children to and from school every weekday

• According to the National Academy of Sciences, an average of 820 students are killed annually during school transportation hours, but less than 2% of them are school bus passengers.
• Back in the 1930’s in the U.S., school buses were pure yellow. Thus, the term "school bus yellow" came into the English language.
• Why Yellow? Lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.24 times greater than for red
• The main reason why school buses are yellow is because safety rules and regulations in the United States require that school buses be yellow. 
• school buses provide an estimated 10 billion student trips in the United States
• The 1930s were a decade where the school bus evolved from an adaptation of existing vehicles (wagons, carriages, trucks) into a vehicle type of its own.
• Crown Coach built the first heavy duty, high capacity, transit-style school coach in 1932 and named it the "Supercoach"
• In 1967, the first dedicated small school bus was introduced by Collins Bus 
• Although small school buses are also used for magnet school programs, transporting exceptionally talented and gifted students, and for routes with low volumes of riders, they have become associated in urban slang with mentally disabled riders. This association has given them derogatory nicknames, such as "the short bus". For the transportation of special-needs students, these buses are often equipped with automated lifts for wheelchair-bound passengers unable to climb steps into the bus.
• I n 1980, there were six major school bus body manufacturers producing full-size school buses in North America:
• Blue Bird Body Company
• Carpenter Body Works
• Superior Coach Company
• Thomas Built Buses,Inc.
• Wayne Corporation
• Ward Body Works