As the recent documentary on Boston's desegregation, Can We Talk?, makes clear, busing in Boston left the community with a collective and potentially unhealed trauma.
The advantages seemed clear: fewer buses clogging the roads, less pollution and safer transport without any increase in fares.
As another participant makes clear, with buses unaffordable, shopping is less a leisure pursuit, more a physically demanding chore: I walk everywhere..
"We're creating parking lots for the residents as well," he said, "so the streets will be clear and the buses can move".
Sirens and radio alerts would not start for the general public until after the evacuation of the children had begun, so that roads would remain clear for the buses, said Anthony Sutton, deputy commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Emergency Management.
They are trying to get the world's attention through what Khadija Hamdi, their culture minister, calls a "cultural war" with Morocco.The Sahrawi capacity for patience becomes clear when the buses pull up at 2am seven hours late and refugee hosts, some with weary-looking children, greet around 200 foreign festival-goers, take them to their tents (known as haimas) and serve them dinner.
Occasionally it seemed excessive to the layman, most obviously the convoy between the hotel and the ground or airport when the roads were cleared for the buses carrying the teams and the press.
The eight trees will be tall enough to allow the buses to clear their lower branches, and will leave a view of the shop windows.
What is clear is that international buses, where border officials focus their suspicions of smuggling, are the slowest way to do the journey.
But the $10 million project needed to find a way to ease the way for buses to clear intersections without tying up traffic on cross-streets.
