Many companies had to close down to contain the Corona of a pandemic, but in the schools in the running. On the Trails there, it comes to peak times, part to large crowds in buses and trains.
In order to equalize the rush of the Morning, the German transport company now required a staggered start of the school teaching. As a result, the traffic would be reduced traffic in buses and trains in the Morning and the health and safety in the public transport is strengthened, said the President of the Association of German transport companies (VDV), Ingo Wortmann, the Newspapers of the Funke media group.
Only a half-hour shift to make a big difference
The impairment of the operation of the schools would be “minimal,” when the lessons for the younger children start at 08.00 PM and for the older time-delayed, for example, an hour later, said Wortmann. The effect on the transport in the main traffic time in the Morning would be, in his words, “enormous” – the capacity and the available space in the vehicles would increase accordingly, “immediately by at least 20 percent”.
The demand and usage of public transport is around the start of School the most, as Wortmann said the Newspapers. The transport company were at this time already the full range of Bus and train. “It drives everything that can go.”
To relieve the burden on school buses in the pandemic, had to Peine, the district is already looking for solutions – and a parents taxi-offered premium. However, the idea to pay parents for rides to school, a flat rate of 30 cents per Kilometer, failed.
So far, the competent ministries and authorities dealing in the corona of a crisis “much too rarely seriously address the important issue of school transport”, said Wortmann. “The planning is there to often at the school gate and fail due to various responsibilities. The actual capacity does not solve problems in the transport of pupils.”
