Parents' fury at school bus chaos

CLAIMS SERVICES ARE LATE, LEAVE PUPILS AND GET LOST!

- By NICK JACKSON

FURIOUS parents of children at three Altrincham schools have blasted transport bosses over buses they claim frequently fail to pick up pupils forcing them to walk miles and making them late for class.

In neighbouring Stockport, parents say they are also at their wits' end over a service they claim often turns up late - or not at all - and gets 'lost' on the way to school.

Parents of pupils living in Broadheath, who go to Altrincham Grammar Schools for Boys and Girls and the girls-only Loreto Grammar School, have protested to their local MP Connor Rand and ward councillor Ulrich Savary over the issue since September last year.

On Tuesday, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) watched as the 746 bus, on its way to Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, drove straight past at least 15 children waiting at the bus stop on Sinderland Road, outside Broadheath Primary School. A couple of minutes later, the 759 service on its way to Loreto stopped and all the pupils got on board.