Court-ordered busing was capped by time and distance, varying widely by city.

Evidence

In an effort to desegregate the schools, busing and other forms of forced desegregation were implemented. Busing was seen as a necessary remedy to the segregated schooling system. The Supreme Court did require that busing was to be limited by time and distance allowing the specifics to be determined by different rulings in court cases. Transportation ended up ranging depending on the city from 45 minutes on the bus each way to no more that two and a half hours on the bus per day (Rossell, 9). — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 20

Categorization

• CANDY: A two-and-a-half-hour daily commute as a civil-rights remedy is genuinely surprising elevator material.
• SEED: Angle: a commute-time map of busing orders as a window into how courts translated desegregation into logistics.
• XREF: connects to: Court-ordered busing fought a class-and-race divide fused into the urban-suburban landscape. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 10