Last year, with the completion of the new high school building, Gary Cuendet’s job as transportation director was markedly different.
Scores of bus routes had to be re-drawn, re-routed and re-worked to wind their way throughout the city and the surrounding area to pick up the 3,000-plus children who would be riding a school bus. The district’s buses travelled a combined 851,000 miles on those routes last school year.
While there are no major bus route changes this year, Cuendet says transporting kids safely to and from school is still his top priority.