Walk to school? Done:

[Jeff Gaynor]

For those of you not on the WBWC mailing list - this is a must read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/world/europe/27bus.html

Excerpts:

Each morning, about 450 students travel along 17 school bus routes to 10 elementary schools ... There are zero school buses.

In 2003, to confront the triple threats of childhood obesity, local traffic jams and — most important — a rise in global greenhouse gases abetted by car emissions, an environmental group here proposed a retro-radical concept: children should walk to school. ...

Although the routes are each generally less than a mile, the town’s piedibuses have so far eliminated more than 100,000 miles of car travel...

-Jeff Gaynor