AGENCY TESTIMONY
Scale and complexity of NYC school bus operations
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Glenn Risbrook provides an overview of the massive and complex school bus operation in New York City, highlighting the scale of daily transportation services provided to students.
- NYC contracts with one of the largest bus fleets in the world
- Daily transportation is provided for over 145,000 students from district, charter, and non-public schools
- The operation involves 52 school bus vendors, over 9,000 routes, and serves over 3,000 schools
- Some routes extend beyond the five boroughs into neighboring counties and states
- The system is dynamic, with daily changes in student numbers, routes, and transportation needs
- There has been a 98% increase in students in temporary housing receiving busing over the past 3 years
Glenn Risbrook
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I would like to talk about yellow bus service across New York City Schools and some of the steps that we would like to take to make it better for our students and families.
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It is important to emphasize that our school bus operation is massive and complex, and there's a slide that we can show the first one.
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New York City public schools contract contracts were one of the largest bus fleets in the world.
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Every day, 52 school bus vendors transport over 145,000 District School, charter school, and non public school students to over 3000 schools using over 9000 routes, which each run twice a day.
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In addition to crisscrossing almost every street in the 5 boroughs.
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Some of those bus routes extend into Long Island, West Chester, Rockland Counties, out to New Jersey, up in Connecticut.
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The number of students change every day.
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As do our routes, and new students enter our system, students move and need to be dropped off at new addresses.
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And as students' IEP and transportation services, they need change as well.
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As New York City Public Schools has welcomed new asylum seekers families, the number of students in temporary housing receiving busing has grown by 98% over the past 3 years.
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For the 1st 2 weeks of this school year, our team saw over 1000 new requests for bus services every single day.
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Despite the constant shift of students, the overall number of students rebus has not changed dramatically over the years.
