The School District of Mystery Lake recently launched bus service for R.D. Parker Collegiate and Wapanohk Community School students.

Currently, two buses are managing the R.D. Parker school routes.

Here is Danny Morris, the Transportation Lead for the District with details.

“Right now, we are basically running around eight routes during each day. In the mornings, I have 2 to go to R.D. Parker, we have 2 routes that are leaving R.D. Parker and plus I’m looking after the off campus students as well.”

Morris says a bus contracted from First Student Bus Lines is handling the Wapanohk School routes for now, with two in the morning and again in the afternoonn.

He added that school districts are required to provide bus service to students living 1.6 kilometres or farther from school, whenever possible.

Morris said that the schedules and routes are changing quickly to adapt to the needs of the riders, but noted there will soon be an app that students and parents can download so they can have real-time information about where the buses are.