School bus routes in Durham could be temporarily cancelled due to COVID

Durham households are being suggested that college bus driver absences as a result of COVID-19 may result in bus routes being quickly cancelled as a final resort.

“Mother and father, college students, and faculty communities must be conscious that it might be essential to cancel bus runs on a brief foundation if we expertise excessive charges of driver absences,” says a Jan. 14 discover from Durham Scholar Transportation Companies, which buses greater than 18,000 college students from the Durham District College Board and Durham Catholic District College Board.

Households are inspired to verify the DSTS web site day by day for updates and create an account to obtain computerized updates on delays and cancellations.

DSTS says if a route is quickly cancelled as a result of COVID, the cancellation may last as long as 5 days.

The same discover was shared by Scholar Transportation Companies of Central Ontario, which buses college students in Clarington, noting “college routes might quickly be suspended within the occasion that there are driver shortages.”