I don’t remember my first day of school but I can only imagine the excitement and the trepidation that I must have felt. Standing there waiting for the school bus to show and then boarding that huge yellow vehicle filled with people I didn’t know and leaving my parents behind. Thank goodness for my big […]
As we approach the end of the school year, many students and families are looking forward to the summer. Transportation staff are already gearing up to get routes ready for those students who are participating in summer school as well as planning for September.
We hope that all parents have contacted their local schools and confirmed […]
The Transportation Portal is a new tool that the Transportation unit has provided to help parents access information about their child’s transportation. After registering for an account (by selecting the ‘parent’ link in the top right hand corner on the website) families are able to add their children to their account and information about their […]
The colour of that big yellow taxi is not mellow yellow;
it’s chrome yellow or school bus yellow
The paint was developed in 1939 when Frank Cyr, a professor at Columbia University assembled a conference of educators, paint experts, and school bus manufacturers. Among other significant achievements at the conference was the desire to select a colour that […]
The school bus has been for decades a safe and reliable means to get students to and from school. As technology evolves, so does the possibilities for leveraging this equipment on our school buses to make them even safer. The advancement of camera technology is now to a point where the resolution is of such […]
Getting students to and from school in an environmentally sustainable way is one of the key missions for the Toronto Student Transportation Group. We are pleased to report that two of our school bus providers (Switzer-Carty Transportation and Wheelchair Accessible Transit) were recently awarded the opportunity to pilot electric school buses here in the City […]
The Toronto Transportation Group is pleased to introduce ‘BusPlanner’ as our new transportation management software. How does new software improve the transportation for our students? The BusPlanner software has been around for a few years but has really come in to its own recently. The software created by ‘Georef’ based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has […]
It’s the dead of winter, its Monday…another school week begins. But it is a cold one, -15 Celsius, it snowed overnight and the wind is blowing, better bundle up the kids today. While you contemplate what to pack for their lunches and get them ready for the bus…. There has already been much going on […]
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School located at 444 Sherbourne St in Toronto is a ‘poster child’ for active transportation. Past decisions provided school bus service for students who lived no more than 5 minutes away from the school. When the opportunity to participate in Green Community Canada’s (GGC) active transporta-tion pilot the school jumped […]
