Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Phillips

We hope to be able to provide enough for all the school buses by May 1.

Our buses are old. We are buying 400 new buses this year. That's a one third change in the fleet. By having newer buses reliability will improve.

Andy Burnham

Roads were pretty slick, but the school district got kids in the buses and to school on time.

E. B. White

Republicans don't seem to understand, most of what's green is good for the economy as well as the environment. Replacing school buses will save kids' lives and stimulate jobs.

Sam Houston

We have employees who come in at 6:15 to get our buses rolling at 7, ... We don't want them out in what could be a potentially dangerous situation.

Kevin Phillips

That's an end of an era for us. We've relied on them (the vans) for the past 30 years for transportation. Now we'll rely on small school buses for our primary mode of transportation.

During his tenure, Richard has kept the buses running for 15 million miles, and 7 million people rode the buses during that time.

School buses are very safe in front-end collisions, but we haven't maximized the safety features for side impacts, ... But it's a complicated issue because of the potential cost.

And they were never used to evacuate people out of hospitals or schools or nursing homes or the like. Where were the drivers of those buses if you know.

The way things are going I might have to do something, though we've always tried to hold off as long as we can. Our buses get about six to seven miles per gallon. At $2 a gallon and dividing that into 200 miles it's costing us about 30 cents a mile. At $2.80 a gallon it costs us 40 cents a mile. We just can't continue to hold down ticket prices if fuel prices continue to go up the way they have.

They've been teasing us with buses for four days. They're telling us they're going to come get us one day, and then they don't show up.

They've been teasing us with buses for four days.

Kathleen Blanco

They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:

We had to dispatch buses to the area, but everything is fine now.

These are some of the things people don't realize about a school district - that we serve 3,929,185 meals a year and our buses travel 2,375,000 miles a year.

(The RTA) is going for a referendum, and until then, we've got to show people every penny is being spent wisely, ... We've got to concentrate on the buses which get people to work and to the doctor before the trolleys.

We had the buses take them home if there would be someone there. If not, they were taken to the rooms we have at Harrison Elementary School.

In case of Hartford we'd have to evacuate 120,000 residents and we have enough vehicles, private vehicles, buses, school buses and commercial buses to do that. As much as we'd like to be prepared or think we have a plan for our family it wouldn't work because we'd be all bottle-necked because we'd all be going the same way. There's not enough roads out of the city.

It was lovely. We didn't have to jump on buses to go somewhere.

This is winter and we live in Minnesota, but even if we have good snow plowing here that they don't have in Missouri or some other state, there's still an issue of getting roads clean so that buses and other people who are out taking their kids to school can be safe.

If you're just looking for photo opportunities and waiting for school buses to drive up so you can cut a ribbon, then it would be a step down.

Alan Faneca

He's not going to jump in front of the line. He's going to wait until we all get off the buses to get in there to the hotel just like everybody else.

Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?

Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.

In Division III, you ride buses everywhere. Even to Mississippi. There's no plane rides in Division III.

I remember several of my friends on the sophomore team got to dress for the playoff games, and I didn't get to because I had a knee injury, ... But I remember all those fan buses, especially when we went to Luther North and there was a long line of yellow buses coming off the expressway.

I heard that the last town that got this award, (Franklin), had everyone, three buses of people, stand up on the stage. That?s what should happen. It should be everyone that pays taxes, that loves living here. We should be there to receive it - that?s everybody. And we should also be there to acknowledge the state council on the art, it?s been 40 years in this state.

It's wise to be in a wait-and-see mode but have your buses prepared, your bus drivers prepared. A lot of people don't know where they are going right now.

They come from Wheelersburg, from Jackson. They come from over in Kentucky and West Virginia. A year or two ago we had a couple of tour buses from some place down in Kentucky,

It was just a great atmosphere, ... As I think about it I'm smiling. To see all those buses with the banners was just neat.

It's getting everybody there. You know? We had to work on flights, and all the buses and everything else. But I think we got it worked out, and now it's just a case where you can focus on what's really important -- winning hockey games.

At first, our evacuation orders were just for the low-lying areas, but now it's the entire Calcasieu Parish. We've got buses running continuously to get residents out. We're trying to learn from other areas, not to repeat their mistakes.

Clearly we've seen congestion as we haven't seen it before. The main concern is the length of time it's taking RFTA buses to get out of town.