The union representing P.E.I.’s school bus drivers says capacity is becoming a growing concern, especially in the Charlottetown area.
CUPE 1145 vice-president Rob Harding said a school bus can hold 72 people maximum. He said right now there are roughly a handful of drivers hovering around that limit on some of their daily runs.
“There’s some drivers who are over that 72 mark and we’re really working with our supervisors to figure all that out,” said Harding.
“There’s days where we’re leaving kids behind and our supervisors are getting buses to come and pick the students that were left behind … or that bus driver will drop the students off at the school and swing back and pick them up.”
