>One of the most wasteful (and expensive) things about school busses is that they are only used for school, which means they sit idle for much of the day. In m

>One of the most wasteful (and expensive) things about school busses is that they are only used for school, which means they sit idle for much of the day. In my country's capital there is a plan of using a fleet of school mini-buses (as "taking kids to school" is among the top reasons why people say they still use a car for their daily commute), but also of putting these to work outside the narrow band of school start/end in other uses: taking old people to their doctors appointments, and commercial on-demand uberpool type transport.