PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Veronica ONeil, Member of the Public
4:33:58
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103 sec
Veronica ONeil expresses concern about the long duration children spend on school buses, particularly highlighting her grandson's experience. She criticizes the current bus routes and suggests improvements to make them more efficient.
- Emphasizes that children shouldn't be on buses for 5 hours a day, as it affects their eating and after-school routines.
- Suggests that human intervention is needed to optimize bus routes, which are currently inefficient and cover too wide an area.
- Argues that the current 2.5-hour bus route is too long, depriving children of exercise and downtime.
Veronica ONeil
4:33:58
Oh, hi.
4:33:59
I'm sorry.
4:34:00
I'm not good at this technical stuff.
4:34:02
Alright.
4:34:05
I don't think any child should be left on the bus for 5 hours a day.
4:34:09
Like, children, they don't eat in school all day long.
4:34:13
You know, they did you know, they they really don't eat.
4:34:16
When they're in school because I don't my grandson comes home and he's hungry.
4:34:21
He has a snack.
4:34:22
You know?
4:34:23
If he gets home after 5, it's, like, time tab dinner and take a bath and get ready for bed practically.
4:34:32
So I don't know.
4:34:33
There's something wrong with the bus route because they did this didn't happen last year, and I tracked the bus, and the bus goes, like, you know, they go I don't know if you in Queens.
4:34:45
Like, they go from Queens Boulevard, to Northern Boulevard, to Astoria Boulevard, to give all over the place.
4:34:54
I I think that a human has to review the GPS, like, like, you know, the computer could, like, put dots on the map where Everybody has to get picked up, but a human should help with the root, you know, to to make a logical straight line on the way to school to pick up kids instead of, like, all over the place.
4:35:16
And the bus driver told me that the route this year is 2 a half hours, and that's too long, you know, for any kids to stay on the bus for 5 hours a day.
4:35:29
You know?
4:35:29
I don't know.
4:35:30
That's that's what I have to say because kids need exercise too.
4:35:36
You know, that they're getting robbed of, like, you know, downtime.
