(11 Sep 2020, 8:56 pm)Adrian wrote It just proves the point that a wider return to Education and the workplace isn't safe. Not when there isn't a practical way to safely ensure that public transport is available.

The source of the issue is that the Government guidance is appalling, but contribution to the chaos will always draw criticism. I acknowledge that you cannot leave kids standing at the side of the road, but I'd also point out that it is the responsibility of the local authorities to provide home-to-school transport - not the bus operators. The local authorities should be providing a solution, not asking or expecting the operators to provide an unsafe environment for travel.

Surely a simple solution would be to stagger school times. For example have one school from 9am - 3pm, another 9:30am - 3.30pm, another 10am - 4pm then another 10:30am - 4:30pm. Least it means the school buses are able to do extra runs for example run one for the 9am one then once that's done run empty and do one for the 10am school and the same for the 9:30am / 10:30am schools.

Better use of resources and not exactly hard to impliment from a school point of view. It also limits the amount of students using the buses at the same time and with the ones at 10am and 10:30am it's moved them away from the morning peak.