He added: "It costs us over £1,000 per pupil a year on a school bus. A
bus pass for the year costs £190. That is a significant saving which
we can put into education in the areas we want."

Assuming 40 weeks in school and five days in the school week, then that works out at
about £5 a day. Methinks that its more than the cost of fuel that is making it so
expensive...

Charlotte Howldsworth, 14, from Bilborough, walks to school. She said:
"I would rather walk than use a bike because I wear a skirt. I don't
think the plans are good at all. If you live far away it is going to
make it difficult to get to school.

No love, that's a belt not a skirt.

Jennifer Cairney, a mother-of-six from Arnold, said: "I'd like to see
something like the US system of yellow buses dropping kids off at the
end of their streets. My three eldest are having to walk about two
miles to school because there isn't a bus to take them.

2 miiles! That's ridiculous - it'll take 'em at least 10, more like 15 minutes on the
bike, and if they walked it the poor darlings would be battling against the elements for
an entire 40 minutes! Next the schools will be insisting they do some form of physical
exercise in PE!