> more a matter of when the sun rises, and how far the busses have to travel In the suburbs I'm familiar with it was 100% a bus scheduling constraint. The high

> more a matter of when the sun rises, and how far the busses have to travel In the suburbs I'm familiar with it was 100% a bus scheduling constraint. The high schools had to start at the crack of dawn because by the time the same fleet of busses made it through the middle schools and on to the elementaries it was getting pretty late. You could alternatively argue that it was a budget constraint (not enough money to 3x the bus fleet). Either way, it sure would have been nice to have robust city planning and public transit (and thus not need a large private bus fleet in the first place).