To ensure the safety of students, school bus
service may be cancelled due to inclement weather, extreme temperatures and/or
poor road conditions. In these cases, parents
and students should develop alternate care/transportation arrangements.
Since some busing schedules begin by 7:00
a.m., cancellation decisions must be made by 6:00 a.m. to allow time to
communicate this message to bus drivers.
Cancellation decisions will only be made after thorough consultation
with the Safety Officers of school bus companies servicing York Region and are based
on several factors including precipitation, air temperature, road conditions
and weather forecast.
Please note the following;
- A
decision to cancel school bus service will be region-wide meaning all school buses, vans and taxis will not
operate.
- When
bus service is cancelled all school tests and/or examinations will be
cancelled and rescheduled.
- Student
trips involving the use of school buses will also be cancelled.
- School bus
routes
may be cancelled when severe
weather may not be affecting all municipalities in York Region. Both the YRDSB and YCDSB operate many
regional educational programs.
Students attending these programs are transported over large
attendance areas encompassing several municipal boundaries. This limits the ability to cancel bus
service using a municipality or zone methodology.
- Unless
otherwise stated, schools will remain open and parents can make
arrangements to transport their children to and from school even if school
bus service is cancelled. If buses are cancelled in the morning, they will not operate in the
afternoon. Therefore students transported to school by parents will
require the same transportation home.
Parents, students and school staff are asked
to access the following radio and television stations after 6:00 a.m. to
receive bus cancellation information:
RADIO
590 AM 640
AM 680 AM 860 AM 1010 AM 1050
AM
1540 AM 1580
AM 88.5 FM 89.9 FM 92.5
FM 93.1 FM
94.9 FM 95.9
FM 97.3 FM 98.1 FM 99.1 FM 99.9
FM
101.1 FM 102.1
FM 104.5 FM 100.7 FM 105.9 107.1 FM
TELEVISION
CITY TV
CTV Barrie CTV Toronto
CP24 GLOBAL NEWS
A
bus cancellation message will also be available at www.schoolbuscity.com and by calling 1-877-330-3001,
or by following the YRDSB and YCDSB on twitter.
