There is apparently a phenomenon in the US now, where parents drive to the school individually to pick up and drop off their children at the beginning and end of the day. Some people I work with even take time off from working to do this. When the parents descend on the school each day there’s insane traffic, cars lined up for miles, all idling their engines. What happened to school buses?
I went from being able to walk to school where I used to live, to the bus being my only feasible option where I live now and during middle/high school. Only got picked up when absolutely necessary, because my dad’s commute times didn’t quite line up. After school stuff was something I only got to experience in the walking days, and the brief time a friend volunteered to take me home from the robotics club he was already in (which unfortunately dissolved like 2 weeks after).