Want To Walk To School?

If so, ride the bus.

I've seen buses broken down on the side of the road before, but until this morning I've never had the joy of being on one. It died just before getting to the intersection of Burbank and Nicholson. It wouldn't even start back up to move it to the side of the road. Luckily for traffic, it had made it to the point where the single lane splits into two, so it wasn't really blocking much. The driver called the shop and everyone poured out of the bus to walk the last mile to school.

I've never been much impressed by the local bus service. A few years ago, there were more buses on the route and traffic wasn't as bad, but I don't remember the buses ever being very clean, or having very professional drivers, or even a long period without a breakdown. I get the impression it's not a very well managed company.