(The Center Square) – For decades, the city of Rome ran school buses that looked like public buses, with no stop arms and nothing to stop passing traffic. And the city leaned on the federal government to pay for the fleet.

Now, taxpayers will take a massive hit because Washington says its transit dollars shouldn’t have been spent ferrying school kids that way.

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The northwest Georgia city had been running the buses for about 30-40 years, the city manager said. Until six years ago, Rome’s students rode in 28 white-paint

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