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Westerville’s transportation team: 'Stop means stop' and the scale of district rides
Summary
Randy Snyder gave safety guidance ('Stop means stop') and shared operational figures: 96 bus routes, 22 MyVan routes, schedules for about 10,000 students, roughly 6,000 daily riders, about 12,000 rides per day and roughly 2.1 million rides per school year; fleet covers just over 2 million miles including trips.
Randy Snyder emphasized road-safety behavior and provided the district’s operational scale: last school year Westerville ran 96 school-bus routes and 22 MyVan routes and scheduled transportation for approximately 10,000 students.
"Stop means stop," Snyder said, stressing that motorists must stop for loading and unloading students. He described an increase in dangerous violations—vehicles passing stopped buses on the right, on sidewalks and through yards—and urged community attention to that risk.
Snyder also gave ridership numbers: "Approximately just north of 6,000 students ride each day on average," he said, which the district translates to about 12,000 rides per day and roughly 2,100,000 rides in a school year; including field trips the fleet covers just over 2,000,000 miles annually.
The combination of safety reminders and the district’s mileage and ride totals illustrates both the logistical scale and the public-safety stakes of daily student transportation.
