As schools cut back on bus service, parents are turning to rideshare apps
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Takia Phillips, 15, arrives at her school on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, after she was one of two children PiggyBack Network co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin helped drive to school as part of the Piggyback ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)PiggyBack Network, co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin sits in his car for a portrait with the PiggyBack ride-share App Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)PiggyBack Network, co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin talks about the Piggyback ride-share program on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, while he waits to drop off the last of two children he drove to school as part of the program in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)PiggyBack Network co-founder & CEO Ismael El-Amin, right, and Messiah Robinson, 6, wait outside the home of Takia Phillips, 15, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, as El-Amin drives the two children to school as part of the PiggyPack ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)PiggyBack Network co-founder & CEO Ismael El-Amin waits outside the home of Messiah Robinson, 6, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, one of two children he will drive to school as part of the PiggyBack ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Takia Phillips, 15, right, walks around the car of PiggyBack Network co-founder & CEO Ismael El-Amin, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, as Phillips and another child are driven to school as part of the ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Ironically, PiggyBack Network co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin drives his car behind a Chicago Public Schools bus as on this day he will take three children, including one of his own, to various schools as part of the PiggyBack ride-share network Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)PiggyBack Network, co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin heads to his car in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, where he will begin to help drive two children to school as part of the PiggyBack ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Takia Phillips, 15, arrives at her school on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, after she was one of two children PiggyBack Network co-founder and CEO Ismael El-Amin helped drive to school as part of the Piggyback ride-share network in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
