Buses are often taken for granted. While we appreciate their convenience and safety, you rarely hear anyone outside the bus industry mention how buses improve traffic conditions significantly. As schools opened this week, a local school learned the hard way.
Broken Arrow has been experiencing high amounts of school traffic and police have now asked parents to please consider letting children take the bus, among other traffic decongestion solutions.
A single bus can keep over 30 individual cars off the road, and in cramped corners like a school parking lot that can make a world of difference.
“They aren’t designed for that number of traffic. They are designed for bus traffic. Part of the reason we have so much congestion at these schools is because of the parents that are taking their kids to school and picking them,” said Sgt. Ed Ferguson.
Read more about what you can do to prevent school traffic congestion here.
