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Guilford Schools to lift bus service suspension to eight high schools

PAUL GARBER/WFDD File

Guilford County Schools officials say they will resume normal bus service to high schools affected by a driver shortage.

In January, school leaders announced a suspension of bus service to eight Guilford high schools. COVID cases were rising in the county at the time, which made dealing with a shortage of drivers even more difficult.

Public transit systems in Greensboro and High Point pitched in, offering free rides to students in the affected high schools.

But things have since improved and service will resume Monday.

GCS has been able to hire 16 new bus drivers since January, but the school system is still more than 50 people short of being fully staffed.

Students should check for new routes, times and stops if they want to go back to riding the school bus, as some have changed. Updated information is available via the Here Comes the Bus app.

Greensboro Transit Agency and High Point Transit System will still offer free rides to students with a GCS OneCard if they prefer to continue with their service.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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