Rochester's bus company and the city school district are working together on a revised student transportation plan designed to make the downtown transit center a safer place.
It would put more students on express service in the afternoon, having them bypass the center, where there has been a number of violent incidents involving young people since it opened four months ago.
RTS CEO Bill Carpenter says when the two-part plan is fully implemented, nearly 21-hundred more students will travel directly to school and back home, eliminating the need for them to transfer at the Transit Center.
The plan includes new bus pass rules for students who attend these schools:
All City, Charlotte, East, Edison, Franklin, Monroe, Northeast/Northwest, School of the Arts and Wilson Commencement.
Existing pass rules have been modified to direct students to designated stops, according to Carpenter.
City School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says it's important to make sure students get home safely.
RTS provides bus transportation for nearly 9-thousand students who travel to 42 schools each day.
About half get express students to home and school.
Phase 2 of the plan, adding more schools to Express Service, will be implemented May 4th.
More details will be released in April.
Officials don't have an estimate yet as to how much the plan is going to cost.
