Can’t find my way home
As a preface, the price of gasoline just slid below the 90 cents per litre mark for the first time in about fifteen months. Small miracles are almost as good for us as the larger ones.
Our school board has a huge territory. It’s just the way it is. But, when your students are spread over the map, you have to provide transportation. The big yellow kind. And, for now at least, the kid cows run on fossil fuels. Money, money, never enough of it avaiable. One compromise is to let those living close enough make their way to school via “shank’s mare” as my father used to say.
The transportation people have to rationalize any decisions for the caring parents, so we spend a lot of time with maps in the workplace. I guess it’s just life that the maps we buy never are sufficiently up-to-date or of a scale that permits the “what if?” so beloved by planners.
I’m starting to think “outside the box”, and with a large inventory of paper maps, electronic maps, wall charts, and the other resources out there I can probably cobble something together. However, a quick course in GIS might be worth the investment. Somebody, somewhere has found the “way”. Why can’t we?
