Parents embrace rideshares for student transportation as school bus usage fades

(16 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 2 December 2024
1. Camille El-Amin drops off her daughter and a classmate whose parents use the Piggyback rideshare app
2. Various of Ismael El-Amin driving children to school
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismael El-Amin, Piggyback Network founder:
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"Piggyback is really more than just the modern day carpool. We sort of call it the complete carpool solution. Every year, parents are going to be faced with, okay, school’s about to start, and there’s a scramble of logistics. How are we going to get there? Which parent is going to be able to take them? Do we have to lean on grandma?"

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 3 October 2024
4. Ismael El-Amin drops off Piggyback rider at her school

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 2 December 2024
5. Yellow school buses lined up to pick up students
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismael El-Amin, Piggyback Network founder:
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"Even though there are school buses that are taking children back and forth to school and home in some situations, we operate completely outside of any boundaries."
7. Boy gets out of El-Amin’s car outside of school
8. Close of El-Amin’s hands on app
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismael El-Amin, Piggyback Network founder:
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"Every zip code, every time frame, if there’s a Saturday event, if there’s a summer camp, we can have parents activate and be a resource to each other in any situation."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Camille El-Amin, Piggyback Network app user:
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"We leave our house around 7:15. We pick up one of our neighbors who also goes to school with my oldest daughter."
11. El-Amin’s daughter and classmate walk towards school
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Camille El-Amin, Piggyback Network app user:
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"We drop off my two kids who are in kindergarten and fourth grade at one school. We then keep going north about another 45 minutes to my oldest daughter’s school."
13. Student getting out of car in drop off lane at high school
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismael El-Amin, Piggyback Network founder:
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"We can introduce strangers to each other that happen to be overlapping with their routes."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lincoln Park, Michigan – 15 November 2024
15. Various of a HopSkipDrive sign located at the side of elementary school, indicating where HSD drivers are to park while dropping off and picking up students
12. SOUNDBITE (English) LaTanya Harris-Gooden, HopSkipDrive CareDriver:
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“HopSkipDrive is the company. I am a CareDriver."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) LaTanya Harris-Gooden, HopSkipDrive CareDriver:
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“Most times it’s afternoon, like 2:30, 3:00 dismissals, and you go to their local school, get them home."
14. Harris-Gooden meets passenger Audrey inside school. UPSOUND "You are my Audrey. Mission accomplished. All right, we’re ready."
15. Harris-Gooden and Audrey exit the school
16. Various of Harris-Gooden checking the app
17. Road scene through Harris-Gooden’s car window
18. SOUNDBITE (English) LaTanya Harris-Gooden, HopSkipDrive CareDriver:
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“When they get into my vehicle, they know that I’m on their side. I’m going to get them home safely. And we’re going to have a little fun, too, if they want to.”
19. Harris-Gooden driving with Audrey in the back seat. UPSOUND: Audrey says hers is the white house and Harris-Gooden confirms
20. Harris-Gooden drops Audrey off at home as Audrey’s mom greets them in front yard
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