Childhood obesity is getting worse in the US. Install pedals in school buses. The engine would remain, but wouldn't be running when full of kids. For example the ride home...-- evilpenguin, Jun 20 2012 Kind of baked. http://islabikes.co...th24-customise.html [pocmloc, Jun 20 2012] Cycle_20Bus [marked-for-deletion] redundant [hippo, Jun 20 2012] You're going to need a bigger bus!-- xenzag, Jun 20 2012 Didn't "The Flintstones" do this, but without the pedals?-- jurist, Jun 20 2012 I can just imagine the obese parents of these kids, bleating to an opportunistic TV news reporter how their precious little porker was left sitting on a stationary bus overnight, because all of the kids were too lazy to pedal home.-- UnaBubba, Jun 20 2012 [UnaBubba] we Australians can't really talk, our obesity rates (for adults anyway) aren't that much better than America's.-- erenjay, Jun 20 2012 I know. I blame the parents. They're the ones who drive their kids to MacDonald's.-- UnaBubba, Jun 20 2012 random, halfbakery