• vortic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I don’t like Trump and I’m positive there weren’t millions bussed from Mexico to vote. I also don’t like disinformation.

    Just looking at school busses, there are approximately 480,000 school busses in the US. Enough to carry 10-30 million people at once, depending on average bus size

    I don’t have time to dig deeper, but im sure there are enough city busses in the US to carry a few million more.

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      2 days ago

      Ah. It’s not disinformation. I wasn’t going off figures of public school buses that in no way could be rented. I was going off the amount of busses in service for private operation.

      There are approximately 66,180 revenue vehicles available for maximum service in the public transit sector of the United States.

      From the transit authority database: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd

      Which based on your math is enough to carry 800k to 2.4 million at once if used to maximum capacity (and depending on bus size).

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      2 days ago

      I was going to say that those school buses all would have been busy transporting children on election day, but then I remembered that most schools are used as polling places and thus the buses would have been free. However, I am a school bus driver myself and I probably would have remembered being told to drive to Mexico (from Philly!) and pick up a load of migrants.