Waterloo students refuel a beloved tradition

Share Nearly 50 years after Waterloo Engineering students first hauled a school bus through Kitchener-Waterloo streets, the Bus Push (Pull) is taking a new route On a Saturday morning in the spring of 1977, about 60 University of Waterloo students from the Faculty of Engineering pushed and pulled a 48-seater school bus 3.4 miles through the streets of Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) to raise money for a local charity. The ten or so students pushing from the back soon had their fill of engine fumes (the bus was running for the brakes to work) and joined the others pulling from the front. Pulling rather