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Albany transportation director outlines staffing, ID-swipe and child-safety plans as bus overcrowding persists
Summary
Director of transportation Dorette Miles told the board the district has increased routes and monitors, is seeing 87% on-time performance so far, and is working on CDTA ID-card problems, driver shortages and a child-safety-zone study. Board members pressed for monitors on high-capacity CDTA routes and technical fixes such as off-board swiping or a
Dorette Miles, director of transportation for the City School District of Albany, told the school board on Oct. 8 that the district has added routes and vehicle capacity this year and assigned more monitors to special-education and many general-education routes to reduce ride duration and behavioral incidents.
Miles said the district is currently reporting about 87% on-time performance and expects ride times and ridership figures to stabilize by December, when school-year routing typically settles. She said the district has 105 dedicated home-to-school routes, the largest total in her five years in the role, and that it has prioritized shorter rides for students in special-education placements.
The presentation focused heavily on interactions with CDTA, the regional transit agency. Miles said CDTA’s recent…
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