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CLEVELAND, Ohio If the walk to school is more than a half mile, Cleveland students can now take a bus.
A new deal struck between the Regional Transit Authority transit agency and the Cleveland school district reduces how much students have to walk, while possibly saving the school district money.
By giving students from sixth grade up bus passes if they live more than a half-mile from school, the district and RTA expect the number of students using buses and trains to rise from 8,500 to as many as 14,000.
Its a complicated plan with a few tiers of pricing, but district Chief Executive Officer Eric Gordon told the school board that because the RTA is increasing the district's volume discount, the district it could save the district about $500,000 a year.
full: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/11/cleveland_students_will_walk_l.html
pinto
(106,886 posts)The city has a separate discounted pricing plan for student transit passes, the university underwrites some of the costs. A win - win for off-campus students here and the city transit system.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)certainly not to high school. I know several Japanese who pedaled 4, 5, 6 miles to school when they were in high school, and as junior high kids they would nearly always walk to pedal to school. And elementary school kids will often walk a mile or more to school. Heck, I even pedaled a mile to junior high each way when I was that age, and the trip took only 5 or 6 minutes.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)whether bus or Rapid (nickname for Cleveland's light rail) in my years in Cleveland. They were great in 92, I imagine it hasn't changed.