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Why are bus ‘roofs’ white?

Why are bus 'roofs' white?

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Each school day morning at 6 a.m., a line of Humble ISD buses maneuver down West Lake Houston Parkway, positioned to pick up their young passengers, the white roofs gleaming under the streetlights.
What? Gleaming white roofs?
When did yellow school buses acquire white roofs?
Always curious, The Tribune wanted to know, so we contacted Jamie Mount, longtime chief communications officer for Humble ISD, and discovered there is a logical and scientific reason.

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