“If it took an extra 10 minutes, that may not have been added to the time of the route.” When additional stops were added to routes, “we did not properly add the time that was needed for a bus driver to complete that,” he said. Pollio said last week that the district should have anticipated that the new plan didn’t leave enough time for buses to get from stop to stop, and to transport its 65,000 riders. The redesigned plan reduced the number of routes. Voyager LX1 '22 Chrysler Pacifica Touring L '21 Chrysler Pacifica Touring L '19 Chrysler Pacifica Touring L '18 Nissan Rogue SV '22 Kia Soul S (304) 743-3300. It was a response to the chronic bus driver shortage. 1053 Main Street Milton, West Virginia RydersUsed '20 Nissan Versa SV '21 Chrys. Kentucky’s largest district, with 96,000 students, had retooled its bus system through a Massachusetts-based consulting company that uses computer algorithms to map out courses and stops. Longer term, some routes need to be revamped but it will take time to redraw them, with a goal of making adjustments at the fall break, he said.
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And the district will deploy additional staff members - known as a “shoulder buddy” - who will be available with GPS and a cell phone to assist drivers on the longest, most challenging routes, he said.
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The district will install a more efficient system meant to avoid delays at bus depots where many students change buses, the superintendent said. The app can send notifications in the morning and afternoon to tell parents when the bus is five minutes away or entering their neighborhood. Parents will soon have access to a mobile app that will provide information about their child’s bus location - though it may not be available to download until next week, when the youngest students are already back in school. “That is unfair to the parents of this community,” he said, and that issue is being corrected “immediately.” He said parents did not have a way to know where their child’s bus was located. The new plan shrunk the number of bus routes in response to that driver shortage.ĭelving into what went wrong, Pollio said one of the greatest errors was an inadequate communication system to keep bus drivers, parents and schools informed of delays. The redesign for this school term was intended to solve a basic math problem: Last school year, the district didn’t have enough drivers to cover all the routes.
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