School bus service

In regard to the recent declaration that the Dunedin school bus service will be stopped, due to declining numbers.

My daughter uses this bus service and the standard bus service. She has told me that the school bus is often jam packed with kids, with standing room only, and if it's a day when she has to take her trombone to school she doesn't get on it, as she's at risk of knocking out a few students with her instrument as she clambers on. Rather than remove it, maybe additional service is needed!

Secondly, in a city with quite a few student living in rural areas, this service should be maintained and funded by council as an obligation to ensure that all our children have equal access to public services and schooling.

Do we really need to make it harder for the children living out at Portobello to get into school. Really?

 - Nadia Kevill

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