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Pullman School District reviews staggered and tandem bus plans to reduce rural gaps
Summary
District operations staff presented route options aimed at transporting all K–12 students across the district without adding buses, proposing tandem hub transfers that would add about 20–25 minutes for the most remote riders; board members asked about supervision, driver recruitment and possible levy funding.
Justin Polstead, the district's executive director of operations, presented a transportation update on current routes and options to expand district-run service across the district's roughly 220-square-mile boundaries.
Polstead said the district currently transports K–5 students within town and all K–12 students in rural parts of the district, while Pullman Transit provides service for many students in grades 6–12. "We're not planning to run multiple buses out into the rural parts of town," he said, describing the constraints that led staff to explore alternative route designs. He said the district wants to transport more students without adding drivers and to keep student ride times low.
Polstead summarized two approaches the district tested: a staggered-start model (elementary at 8:30 a.m., secondary at 9 a.m.) and…
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