Manitoba school divisions once again battling bus driver shortages, transportation issues
Global News
After a school year plagued by bus driver shortages, the issue is rearing its head once again across many Manitoba school divisions this fall.
Melissa Stoddart’s just moved. A new neighbourhood within Winnipeg’s Pembina Trails School Division means a new bus for her daughter, but it’s been a battle getting her application processed.
“I need busing now. I don’t have a car regularly. My husband has to take the car,” Stoddart told Global News on Friday.
She’s called and emailed the school division for weeks since applying in August, getting through once and receiving little information.
Stoddart’s been driving her daughter to and from school using a borrowed car, which interrupts her work day — and time is running out.
“I worry that come October when my parents require their vehicle back that, if I don’t have busing, like I said, I’m going to have to get on a bus with her, (and) take her to school,” she said.
Stoddart isn’t alone in her struggle with school transportation.
Pembina Trails announces cancelled and delayed routes on its Facebook page on a weekly basis.
“As is the case in school divisions across Canada, bus driver shortages are an ongoing challenge,” the school division’s superintendent Lisa Boles said in an emailed statement.
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