Infrastructure? Phooey. The issue is financial resources. Everyone complains that taxes are too high, yet complain because roads are not fixed because there is no money to do so. Then is the claim “I pay my taxes so there is no reason not to fix them”. Problem is…your taxes pay MAYBE 15-20% of all the goods and services your government provides. NOW…if governments collected all the unpaid corporate taxes, there could be a lot more infrastructure improvements, but alas, big business don’t pay taxes. They just remind politicians who it was that paid for their election.
If SO MANY students feel they need medical attention for just a bouncing or rough bus ride, then something else is at play: A single bus (or two) is somehow defective (bad suspension, exhaust leak gassing riders, etc.), or something psychosomatic could be going on. Out here in rural country, they won’t send buses down the worst of roads, so students have to walk to a pick-up spot at pavement. But this is supposed to be a city, right? Are you telling me the potholes got THAT bad overnight? (Yes, it could happen.)
In all my life as a onetime student and later adult, this is the very first time I’ve ever heard of students begging to go to the nurse because of a rough bus ride. Was that bus ride truly THAT bad, or have we raised a generation of “coddled weenie snowflakes”? (Debate amongst yourselves; I’m not in this fight.)
codycab 9 months ago
I always knew bus rides were painful but wow!
Amina Rush 9 months ago
wow! Something needs to change
beb01 9 months ago
With that many kids ill I think it’s time to call EMS and take them to a hospital for examination of potential concussions.
Pharmakeus Ubik 9 months ago
Nobody should have to ride on Crankshaft’s bus.
SquidGamerGal 9 months ago
Why don’t they fix the potholes already?
Decepticomic 9 months ago
Just sleep in class.
rockyridge1977 9 months ago
Aspirin and go to class!!!!!
MichaelD Premium Member 9 months ago
The bus always takes Advil Avenue to Bayer boulevard.
DawnQuinn1 9 months ago
Infrastructure? Phooey. The issue is financial resources. Everyone complains that taxes are too high, yet complain because roads are not fixed because there is no money to do so. Then is the claim “I pay my taxes so there is no reason not to fix them”. Problem is…your taxes pay MAYBE 15-20% of all the goods and services your government provides. NOW…if governments collected all the unpaid corporate taxes, there could be a lot more infrastructure improvements, but alas, big business don’t pay taxes. They just remind politicians who it was that paid for their election.
LNER4472 Premium Member 9 months ago
Contrarian analysis:
If SO MANY students feel they need medical attention for just a bouncing or rough bus ride, then something else is at play: A single bus (or two) is somehow defective (bad suspension, exhaust leak gassing riders, etc.), or something psychosomatic could be going on. Out here in rural country, they won’t send buses down the worst of roads, so students have to walk to a pick-up spot at pavement. But this is supposed to be a city, right? Are you telling me the potholes got THAT bad overnight? (Yes, it could happen.)
In all my life as a onetime student and later adult, this is the very first time I’ve ever heard of students begging to go to the nurse because of a rough bus ride. Was that bus ride truly THAT bad, or have we raised a generation of “coddled weenie snowflakes”? (Debate amongst yourselves; I’m not in this fight.)
Aladar30 Premium Member 9 months ago
Time to change the bus.