As we enter the fall season, we can expect to see more snow,
more holiday traffic, and more pumpkin spice items on the
shelves. We also see school buses back on the roads as
students are settling into their new school year. Each day, 26
million children take 480,000 school buses to school across the
United States. School buses, although considered by some to be
a boring, routine part of everyday life in America, have a fun
history. Let's learn some fun facts about school
buses:
- The first “school bus” was seen in Paris in
1662! It was a carriage pulled by a horse, and the tradition
lasted about 15 years before financial issues stopped the
practice. The next time school carriages were seen was
1812. (Bonus fact: kids used to ride on the roof of the
carriages!)
