Tag: STUDENT TRANSPORT
Children’s Ombudsman: State Secretary must stop chaos for student transport
Student transport in the Netherlands has been problematic for years. Students are picked up late or not at all, there are constant changes in drivers or the travel time is…
Student transport parents receive a letter: child may travel longer
Parents in the southeast of the province of Utrecht must take into account that their child will travel longer with student transport after the Christmas holidays. This is stated in…
Utrecht cuts back on student transport with stricter rules: ’30 fewer children’
A child who cannot go to school independently can use student transport and request this annually from the municipality. For example, in the event of illness, a disability or behavioral…
How Bilal and Mohammed combine care and taxi rides in student transport
During the course, drivers learn how to deal with autism, ADHD, attachment problems and other common disabilities. Through the parents they get to know the children a little and they…
How is student transport going? ‘Parents were waiting at the wrong stop’
The chaos in student transport has never been so great at the start of the school year. Taxi buses arrived late or not at all due to a failed tender,…
Student transport drivers lured out of Utrecht with ‘very high amounts’
Carrier Willemsen de Koning had to make every effort to keep the vans running in the municipality of Utrecht. Ultimately, we managed to have a driver on all routes in…
Touring coach student transport again much too late: ‘You can no longer call it an incident’
Not only in the mornings did a lot go wrong this week with the student transport, says Alice Steenbergen from Harmelen. Things also went wrong when picking her up. “They…
Father Tim is working on a thesis for better student transport: ‘Stop tendering’
Reactions from municipalities A number of municipalities responded – sometimes in joint consultation – to questions from RTV Utrecht about the tender for student transport. The municipality of Utrecht sees…
Situation of student transport by coach will last the entire school year
Jim’s mother doesn’t know how the coach transport, which will last the rest of the school year, will go for her son. What might help is that her son is…
Student transport in Woerden also in trouble: vulnerable children have to go to school by coach
Carrier Willemsen-De Koning responded that despite problems at the start, “the vast majority of journeys are now running according to schedule”. But that it is not possible in the short…