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TOP FIVE “GREEN” REASONS TO GET ON THE BUS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Every day millions of students rely on school bus transportation to get to school. The American School Bus Council (ASBC) is calling on millions more students to ride the
bus to school, thereby eliminating more cars on the road and reducing carbon emissions.
The Top Five Reasons Why YELLOW is the GREEN Way to Get to School,
which are:
5) One school bus can carry up to 65 children…that’s 65 parents who can keep their car in the garage
and emissions out of the air.
4) School buses are getting “cleaner” every year…model 2007 school buses are 60 times cleaner than those manufactured in 1990.
3) “Old” buses are going green too…since 2003 more than 12,000 school buses have been retrofitted
with emissions-reduction technology.
2) We’re helping to reduce soot and smog…all newly constructed school buses are reducing soot and
smog-causing emissions by 90 and 95 percent, respectively
1) Students are safer on the bus…the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Transportation and other authorities agree that school buses are the safest form of transportation for
getting children to and from school.
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