a mamim, maybe buses with 2 doors are better but in this lousy economy is this the place to spend money when so many people are struggling to survive. btw, many of those schools did not have big buses before and managed without. Also, there are thousands of kids who come home on city provided buses such as Atlantic Express, these companies do not get new buses unless they pay for them so all those kids are still riding on buses with one door and because the bus company has to pay for the buses, they will use the buses until they are used up.
Some politician makes himself look good by giving those buses but then the gov’t has to find a way to pay for everything and the gov’ts answer is to take it out of our pockets. did you hear that the tolls from ny to jersey went up to $12!!! it now costs about $40 to go roundtrip from brooklyn to lakewood, a 1hour and 15 min. drive. Every tax and expense goes up because the gov’t needs money. let them keep the buses and the renovated parks etc, and also keep their hands out of their pockets. If schools want school buses, they should pay for them themselves. (and yes, my children’s school did get one of those new buses.)