I rode to school in a bus every day and some days there were a foot of snow, on a bad day more. Temps could be -30 degrees and I’d happily wait for the bus. I d

I rode to school in a bus every day and some days there were a foot of snow, on a bad day more. Temps could be -30 degrees and I’d happily wait for the bus. I don’t remember a bus getting stuck once, and not one day of school being closed. The reason this worked wasn’t because the buses were 8x8 monsters or that they even had winter tyres or snow chains. These were regular buses. Often articulated ones. The reason it works is because if there is a foot of snow over night, it’s cleared by 7 am. That’s where you invest if you want to go to school all year and it snows from October to April. But for most places such as Britain, or continental Europe outside of mountain regions this isn’t an issue you’d spend money dealing with. It’s better to have a snow day now and then and put the snow plow money towards more teachers or better public transport.