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School buses cut By THERESE HENKIN
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anic is mounting among the parents of east Auckland school children as 16 schools will be losing some of their school buses next year. As part of Auckland Transport’s (AT) new bus network, selected schools will have their regular school bus services withdrawn, and alternate public transport routes have been suggested. Botany mum, Angelika Sansom says she is horrified that her 9 year old children will now have to cross a secluded reserve and busy roads
to get to and from Botany Downs Primary. “I don’t feel comfortable with my kids catching public transport alone where nobody is looking out for them and they don’t know anyone.” “On top of that the bus doesn’t go anywhere remotely close to the school.” The bus route suggested for her children by AT will drop her kids outside Millhouse Reserve which leaves Sansom with concerns for their safety crossing the reserve, which is out of sight of the road. She says even if she dropped her children at the school gates in the
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morning, they would still need to catch the bus home. The alternate bus stop recommended for their drive home Sansom says would drop the kids outside the Accident and Emergency Clinic on Botany Road, forcing her kids to cross busy Botany Road, alone. “They have told me by themselves that they don’t feel comfortable crossing Botany Road. Even I feel nervous crossing that road, and I do it at the traffic lights. I just won’t allow them to do that.” Sansom says despite statistics AT is using to justify withdraw-
ing school bus services, there are bus loads of student who will be affected by these changes. “The bus my children catch services about six schools in the area. They are giving me statistics, which I know are incorrect, on there being too few Botany Downs Primary students using the bus,” she says. “But whoever put this bus service together in the first place had the foresight to see that if each school has a few students that need to catch it, add them together and you have a full bus.” ➤ Turn to Page 5
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