10 million private school students in Pakistan. If only a tenth of them use their own transport that’s 1 million cars every school day. Assume a 5k commute, that’s 20k a day. At 150 school days, that’s 3 billion km a year. Carpooling or bus services needs to become mandatory.
That’s a fuel cost of Rs. 300 billion, carbon emissions, climate change, stress on road infrastructure etc. Schools have access to every students address and could create streamlined pick/drop schedules.
Maybe my numbers are incorrect, but anyone on the road during school time knows how unnecessary all these cars are to pick ONE child up from school.
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