CHILDREN travelling by bus to St Therese’s Primary School now need to cross one of Bendigo’s busiest roads before walking two blocks to school. Before Bendigo’s new bus network came into effect on April 28, the youngsters were dropped outside the school gate by the special school bus. That bus now no longer exists and students must use route 14 to get to and from school, which means walking from Lowndes Street to Glencoe Street and crossing the busy St Aidan’s Road. The school was only told of the change the week before the new bus timetable, giving principal Matthew Mann only one day before the Anzac Day long weekend time to notify parents. “Our students now have to walk two blocks and have to cross St Aidan’s Road,” he said. “We can’t provide a teacher to escort them up to Glencoe Street.” Ann-Maree Davey is furious and disappointed with the changes. Her son Tom was to catch the bus home from school last week but walked to his Strathdale home in the rain. “They have left a whole heap of school children in the lurch,” she said. “I’m really disappointed.”
my daughter is 6 when she was in a pram there were a couple of occassions where i could not get on a bus because it was crowded this was during non school hours and obviously before the new system there will be times when this happens people also need to hail the bus when they see it coming that is why it is written on the bus stops to bad the weekly has decided to take a negative approach to covering the new bus system there are plenty of people out there who are happy with it but we only get to see stories from whingers be prepared with wet weather gear when picking kids up for school to keep them from getting to wet on the few occassions that there may be rain
This is a real mess you've left us with Bob and Jacinta. Missing detail has made bus timetables a shambles. It took you years to listen to community about Kangaroo Flat railway station and it's certainly time you liswtened to rest of Bendigo about the buses.
Comment #3
(Posted by Big John)
What do expect when Cat Woman just sits on the fence and only appears for news photo's.
And The Phantom is even worse he only appears now and again.
Vote them out next election, the answer is easy.
Time to go P & C.
