Buses in sentence

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Every year when it comes to the cotton harvest, the government shuts down the schools, puts the kids in buses, buses them to the cotton fields to spend three weeks harvesting the cotton.

We didn't even have to pay for the buses.

But the mayor of London wanted to reintroduce buses with this open platform.

And so what we're doing now is we're building this whole village with the community, starting with transforming municipal buses into classrooms on wheels that bring GED and high school education across turf lines.

So parking garages, buses, trains, they all operate within the same system.

They actually have these buses that drive up and over the lateral moraine and drop people off on the surface of the glacier.

For any of you in the room who are 50 or older, or maybe or even 40 or older, you remember a time when there were no ramps on the streets, when buses were not accessible, when trains were not accessible, where there were no wheelchair-accessible bathrooms in shopping malls, where you certainly did not have a sign language interpreter, or captioning, or braille or other kinds of supports.

In 1971, the Ku Klux Klan bombed 10 school buses rather than have them transport integrated students.

And if you look at California, they use 2,500 buses.

Let me get you one of our 8,000 buses.

And the exhaustion of mothers who had taken two, three, sometimes four buses to bring their child to the doctor was just palpable.

For everybody who does not know the public transport here in Dublin, essentially, we have this system of local buses that grew with the city.

And as these local buses approach the city center, they all run side by side and converge in pretty much one main street.

Now, this is a bit of a mess, so I decided, of course, "You're going to apply the rules of schematic design," cleaning up the corridors, widening the streets where there were loads of buses and making the streets at straight, 90-degree corners, 45-degree corners or fractions of that, and filled it in with the bus routes.

For me, it was important that the vehicles that would run on those rapid transport corridors would be visibly distinguishable from local buses on the street.

Now we could take out all the local buses that ran alongside those rapid transport means.

So, in other words, if there was a street in an outskirt where there had been a bus, we put a bus back in, only now these buses wouldn't run all the way to the city center, but connect to the nearest rapid-transport mode, one of these thick lines over there.

A few weeks later, my friend was in a crowd of people pushing with her infant son in her arms to give him to a stranger on a bus, which was one of the last buses leaving Sarajevo to take children out so they could be safe.

I would bring the branches home, riding buses and subways, barely holding them in my hands.

Bogota, where Mayor Mockus, when he was mayor, he introduced a transportation system that saved energy, that allowed surface buses to run in effect like subways, express buses with corridors.

So we worked hard to refocus our agenda, to maximize efficient mobility, providing more room for buses, more room for bikes, more room for people to enjoy the city, and to make our streets as safe as they can be for everybody that uses them.

We've also brought this approach to our buses, and New York City has the largest bus fleet in North America, the slowest bus speeds.

In fact, when I became mayor, applying that democratic principle that public good prevails over private interest, that a bus with 100 people has a right to 100 times more road space than a car, we implemented a mass transit system based on buses in exclusive lanes.

We called it TransMilenio, in order to make buses sexier.

And one thing is that it is also a very beautiful democratic symbol, because as buses zoom by, expensive cars stuck in traffic, it clearly is almost a picture of democracy at work.

A committee of 12-year-old children would find out in 20 minutes that the most efficient way to use scarce road space is with exclusive lanes for buses.

In fact, buses are not sexy, but they are the only possible means to bring mass transit to all areas of fast growing developing cities.

We fought not just for space for buses, but we fought for space for people, and that was even more difficult.

And the second ingredient, which would solve mobility, that very difficult challenge in developing countries, in a very low-cost and simple way, would be to have hundreds of kilometers of streets only for buses, buses and bicycles and pedestrians.

When the visibility dropped to [less] than a few meters, they stopped the buses and I had to walk.

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