Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    8 months ago

    Schools is canceled if it’s -20C for 1-6 grade and -25C for higher grades here, I’m assuming that is also a thing in the US. And I have walked to school at -25C before only to walk back because it was closed, I think I was in 3th grade. It’s not some deadly arctic weather you make it out to be, just dress properly.

    Also all of that is pretty irrelevant since I was saying you should have public transit that people can just use, including kids for getting to school, not that kids have to walk the whole way to school. Not just special busses children use twice a day.

      • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        How? My country is like high enough on the map to be on the same line as central Canada and we get like a week or two of -25C or more plus some random cold snaps.

        Also that’s completely beside the point since my whole point was to have normal bus lanes instead of a school bus.

        • BirdsWithBeefyArms@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          8 months ago

          Shrug, I’m not a metrologist to be able to explain everything that goes into why it’s normal to have -25C days in the winter here. Our cold snaps are down to -35-40C, not -25C.

          I didn’t respond to your other point for a reason. I only responded to your ‘I assume this is a thing in the US’ to correct your assumption. Do with that what you will.