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Poor service on public bus for school run

spacemonkey · 2022-09-15T14:15:48Z

So in the first 8 days of monkey going to secondary school, the (only available) public bus has been pretty sh1t TBF. i) It failed to turn up one morning, with there being no other bus available until 10am. I had to drop everything and drive him in ii) It took a short cut through town one afternoon, therefore missing out the school bus stop. Once again, I did the pick up iii) It didn't even run at all at school throwing out time yesterday afternoon, meaning another journey to collect him Now, I know stuff happens and it's a public service blah blah, but this is the only available bus service for our area/school. Surely, for example, a bus driver can't choose to cut out a whole loop, especially when that loop has a stop for the school? FTR, when another parent did a recce a few weeks ago, the driver told her that he and other driver will do exactly that when they're running late - she thought he was joking. How is that allowed... especially when winter kicks in and 11 years old are left stranded in the cold, dark and pi55ing rain. Before you ask, we live in a remote village where the only bus service (once in the morning and once in the afternoon) was removed 3 years ago. We now have only one bus available and we're not entitled to the free school bus because it's not our nearest school. Any pointers appreciated as I'm going to be speaking to the school and bus company tomorrow. Ta

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johndoh

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We've had another let down (three times in two weeks). Child was waiting for the bus, sign said it would arrive in a minute. A minute later and the sign changed again, then another minute, then another... 30 minutes later he texted my wife to let her know. She was in the middle of something (many miles from where he was with one of our daughters). Fortunately, I was working from home so I had to break off from a meeting and go to collect him. It's a $%*&ing disgrace.

Surely if it’s the school you have been allocated then you should be entitled to a school bus or taxi?!

Again, as I have said several times on this thread, circumstances may be different. Ours are.

Posted : 17/09/2022 1:30 pm

sc-xc

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Again, as I have said several times on this thread, circumstances may be different. Ours are.

This.

OP has said it's not the allocated school, means (like several of us here) that from time to time we have to jump in the car.

Posted : 17/09/2022 8:27 pm

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