Buses

📖 In short

A bus is a big vehicle that carries lots of passengers together on streets and roads. People ride it to school, work and the market, and travel between cities on it. It saves fuel and cuts traffic, because it carries many passengers in one vehicle.

🤩 Did you know?

Some big buses can seat about 70 passengers.
Electric trolleybuses running on overhead wires came into use in England in 1911.
The first buses were carriages pulled by horses.
One bus can take the place of dozens of cars on the road.

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🌟 Kinds of buses

There are small buses carrying a few passengers, big buses carrying dozens, double-decker buses like London's red ones, and long buses in two joined parts that bend around corners.

🔍 The school bus

In many countries the school bus is yellow so drivers can see it easily. When it stops to let children on, cars must stop too.

💡 Electric buses

Some buses run on electricity, either from wires above the street or from big batteries. They're quiet and give off no smoke.

🎯 Bus manners

Wait for the bus on the pavement, get on calmly, sit down or hold the handle tight, give your seat to an older person, and don't put your hand out of the window.