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From rural roads to integrated routes, the yellow school bus faces a new reality.

From rural roads to integrated routes, the yellow school bus faces a new reality.

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August 21st, 2026

From rural roads to integrated routes, the yellow school bus faces a new reality.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

American school buses have kept their standard yellow look for decades.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์Šค์ฟจ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ‘œ์ค€์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

This shade was not set by law in Congress. It was chosen in 1939 at a national meeting of traffic officials because of visibility.

์ด ์ƒ‰์กฐ๋Š” ์˜ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, 1939๋…„ ์ „๊ตญ ๊ตํ†ต ๊ณต๋ฌด์› ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์„ ํƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In the 1980s, at its peak, yellow buses carried more than 60 percent of American students to school.

1980๋…„๋Œ€ ์ „์„ฑ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ž€ ๋ฒ„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•™์ƒ์˜ 60% ์ด์ƒ์„ ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ์‹ค์–ด ๋‚˜๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The metal-bodied school bus began in rural America.

๊ธˆ์† ์ฐจ์ฒด์˜ ์Šค์ฟจ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ๊ณจ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋๋‹ค.

Albert Luce, a car dealer in Georgia, designed it to carry cement workers. When his company refused it, he sold it to schools.

์กฐ์ง€์•„์˜ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๋”œ๋Ÿฌ ์•จ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋ฃจ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๋ฉ˜ํŠธ ๋…ธ๋™์ž ์ˆ˜์†ก์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜์ž ํ•™๊ต์— ํŒ”์•˜๋‹ค.

Later, school districts merged small neighborhood schools into larger ones, and the demand for school buses grew.

์ดํ›„ ํ•™๊ต ๊ตฌ์—ญ์ด ์ž‘์€ ๋™๋„ค ํ•™๊ต๋ฅผ ๋” ํฐ ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์Šค์ฟจ๋ฒ„์Šค์˜ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค.

Matt Anderson, a curator at the Henry Ford Museum, said that without consolidation, there would have been no school buses.

ํ—จ๋ฆฌ ํฌ๋“œ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ๋งท ์•ค๋”์Šจ์€ ํ†ตํ•ฉ ์—†์ด๋Š” ์Šค์ฟจ๋ฒ„์Šค๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Decades later, buses helped integrate schools by carrying Black and white children across racial boundaries.

์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ํ›„ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ํ‘์ธ๊ณผ ๋ฐฑ์ธ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ์ธ์ข…์  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์šด์†กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•™๊ต ํ†ตํ•ฉ์„ ๋„์™”๋‹ค.

But that practice has mostly ended, and in many parts of the U.S., schools are becoming more segregated again.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด ๊ด€ํ–‰์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋” ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Carl Fisher drove for 66 years and retired in 2012 as the longest-serving driver in the Guinness World Records.

์นผ ํ”ผ์…”๋Š” 66๋…„๊ฐ„ ์šด์ „ํ•ด 2012๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋„ค์Šค ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ƒ ์ตœ์žฅ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์šด์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ์€ํ‡ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

His first bus was a Dodge truck modified with benches and small chairs.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ๋ฒค์น˜์™€ ์ž‘์€ ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•ด ๊ฐœ์กฐํ•œ ๋‹ท์ง€ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The yellow school bus became the industry standard with safety features like padded seats and stop signs.

๋…ธ๋ž€ ์Šค์ฟจ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ํŒจ๋”ฉ ์‹œํŠธ์™€ ์ •์ง€ ํ‘œ์ง€ํŒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์•ˆ์ „ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋ฉฐ ์—…๊ณ„ ํ‘œ์ค€์ด ๋๋‹ค.

Brad Beauchamp of manufacturer Blue Bird said it is the safest road transport per passenger mile, even without seat belts.

์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๋ธ”๋ฃจ ๋ฒ„๋“œ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋ž˜๋“œ ๋ณด์ฑ”ํ”„๋Š” ์ขŒ์„ ๋ฒจํŠธ ์—†์ด๋„ ์Šน๊ฐ๋‹น ๋งˆ์ผ๋‹น ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๋„๋กœ ๊ตํ†ต ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But a shortage of drivers means buses cannot carry many students, so families must arrange their own transport.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์šด์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ๋ถ€์กฑ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•™์ƒ์„ ํƒœ์šฐ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๊ตํ†ต์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด๋‹ค.

Jim Opegaard drove for over 20 years in Minnesota. He retired at 94 as the oldest driver on record, saying it was a rewarding job helping children and society.

๋ฏธ๋„ค์†Œํƒ€์—์„œ 20๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์ „ํ•œ ์ง ์˜คํŽ˜๊ฐ€๋“œ๋Š” 94์„ธ์— ๊ธฐ๋ก์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ น ์šด์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ์€ํ‡ดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๋ณด๋žŒ๋œ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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