Agreed. All of that should be tax-deductible or something. At the very least. The county or city should be providing safe bus stops.

The issue where I live is, they simply stop at every stop, backing traffic up for miles. It's illegal to pass a bus, and the bus could probably, after picking someone up, put up a signal to let people pass, but they don't. I can't condone anyone who puts kids in danger, but some of that responsibility falls upon the municipality as well for creating the unsafe situation.

Running school buses at the exact time people are going to work is also a really bad idea. For one, there's more traffic. Two, if people could drop kids off at school on their way to work and pick them up after, it would shift the traffic to non-commute times, increasing safety. But, gas taxes pay for roads, and people use more gas in stop-and-go traffic, so it's revenue generating. In other words, it's disgusting, but I repeat myself.