Reply #67: Detroit School Buses [View All]

[Gaedel]

Historically, Detroit has not had school buses.

If you were going to your assigned school and the distance was beyond the prescribed walking distance, they used chartered city buses for the school bus. When I went to 7th and 8th grades at Andrew Jackson Intermediate in Detroit, we were picked up at bus stops by the chartered city bus operating on a school bus schedule and dedicated to the carrying of the students. After delivering the students to the school, the bus returned to its place in the equipment scheme running regular city routes. At school dismissal, a city bus, under charter, would be waiting at the school with a cardboard "bus no. 7" sign in the window to take us back to our bus stop for the short walk home. These bus stops were not the normal city bus stops and while we were on the bus, the bus did not carry any normal bus passengers. The bus just made the various stops at the student pickup points, then headed for the school.