He said what are you looking for, and they told [him] that they are trying to check for bus fees, that this is the reason that they pulled [the bus over].
Sally Forbes, a parent in Hingham, supported her school board's recent rejection of bus fees, but she is reconsidering because the board is now threatening to furlough teachers to save money.
It is not known exactly how much the bus fees would rise under the proposal, but some planners at the authority questioned the wisdom of increases that would in turn raise bus fares, which might in turn discourage the kind of mass transit use that they seek to ease road congestion.
Rankled in various ways, the Blair campaign has also barred several people from travelling with the prime minister, even though they have expressed willingness to pay the stiff bus fee -- £564 a day, more than $800.
It was that while the richest Americans enjoy the greatest benefits from President Bush's tax cuts, most New York City residents are paying more in higher sales taxes, property taxes, subway and bus fares, tuition fees and health-care costs.
The fare is $350 plus $66.50 V.A.T. and includes all meals, beverages, entertainment, bus transfers, entrance fees and afternoon tea at the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge of Orient-Express Hotels.
The free company housing means his expenses aren't high — food, cigarettes, bus fare, connection fees at the local wang ba (or Internet cafe) where he goes to relax — but even so, Li said, it is difficult to set aside savings.
The Teaneck district is seeking no increase at all, planning instead to supplement tax revenue with user fees for bus service, sports and extracurricular activities.
Sales taxes on clothing and school supplies and fees for bus fare and car registration take up, of course, a far bigger slice of a poor household's budget than they do from the rich.
Most blacks, including many of the students' neighbors and relatives, are still stuck in impoverished all-black schools, unable to afford the bus fare or school fees to attend better-equipped white institutions.
