School buses axed
The safety of hundreds of school pupils will be put at risk as changes are to be made to the secondary school transport scheme, it has been warned.
Parents are furious after Renfrewshire Council axed free bus travel for pupils living more than two miles away from the school – saving £274,000.
The new changes will mean 187 pupils at St Benedict’s High School, 166 Gryffe High School children and 118 pupils at Castlehead High School will lose their bus passes.
In addition, nearly 300 St Andrew’s Academy students and 66 Paisley Grammar pupils will also be affected when the plan comes into effect in August.
However, council leader Derek Mackay told the councillors at the annual budget meeting that the free bus service would continue if a safe walking route for the children could not be found.
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