COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The yellow school bus is a landmark of back-to-school season, but the bright hue is more than tradition. With 26 million students riding buses across the U.S. each day, school ...

You can recognize the bus in this picture, even though it is distorted, because of that iconic color. It was chosen in 1939 and used all over America. Later, people found out that while the shade was ...

School buses weren’t always yellow. But now, the color, known as national school bus chrome, is the universal language for “be careful – children on board!” In fact, the color is designated by federal ...

Back in April 1939 and armed with a $5,000 grant supplied by the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University Teachers College professor Frank Cyr took a tour of ten states to gauge the extent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATLANTIC — The shape and lines may be recognizable as old school buses, but for most, the iconic yellow paint is gone replaced by ...

Let me acknowledge an odd preference right away. I pay heed to buses in the way other people judge cars. I ride the big vehicles. And what I’ve seen lately is color, plenty of color. We’re not talking ...