• School enrollments will increase 33% between 1990 and 2030. This will add 4 million additional children by 2005 and 15 million by 2030.
  
  
• School buses provide over 10 billion rides for our children each year making these yellow vehicles the largest form of public transportation in the U.S.
  
  
• There are over 400,000 school buses on the roads every day in this nation.
  
  
• The Department of Transportation requires six additional safety features be built into every school bus which are not found on any other public or private vehicle.
  
  
• School bus drivers log over 4 billion miles behid the wheel each year.
  
  
• There are 50 million children who presently attend public and private schools with yellow school buses transporting half of them every day.
  
  
• According to the National Safety Council in 1996, school buses are: 172 times safer than your family automobile, 8 times safer than railroad passenger trains, 4 times safer than transit or intercity buses, and 8 times safer than scheduled airlines.

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