Bus Drivers Ask For More Covid Precautions After Reports Of Positive Cases At Bus Yard

BOSTON — Though Boston Public Schools will begin the year remotely, a fleet of school busses sits parked and ready to go at the city’s three bus yards. “We have to be able to be protected,” said Andre Francois, president of the School Bus Drivers Union.

He represents more than 900 drivers who will have to navigate the roads during the coronavirus pandemic.

Transdev, the private contractor who oversees the city’s bus yards, told Francois that two maintenance workers at the Readville bus yard had been diagnosed with coronavirus within the last two weeks.

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