Wrong side of the tracks, er, street

I discovered at school registration today that we live on the wrong side of the street...the east side is on one bus route, the west on a different one. Henry literally has six friends from preschool who are on the route on the west side...and we live on the east side (with no one he knows). The kicker is that I know the other route picks up at our corner, just across the street! The head of transportation said that if there is room on the other route, we can switch, but we won't know that until a couple of days into school :(