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People from Europe don't realize just how local so much of this stuff is. Where I am (small town America), the public school system pays for the school busses, and they handle all the schools in the district, even the private ones. There's a small charge if you want to use them for non-school children (think: daycare).

This setup may or may not be replicated in the next town ten miles away.

And until you've lived your poor life you don't realize what an absolute ass it is to have transit schedules continually changing on you; and the bus may change when it comes but when you have to be at school or work won't, and so the moment you save enough for a car ...

>>bombca+(OP)
Yeah American government is "basically whatever people decide to do." We build the "system" out of what people are doing, not the other way around.