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Speaker 1: Six hundred and twenty five buses transport nineteen thousand BPS

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Speaker 1: students to and from school every day. However, five percent

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Speaker 1: of those buses have been arriving late. According to Dan Rosinga,

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Speaker 1: with BPS transportation.

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Speaker 2: Even at that ninety five percent target level, nearly one

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Speaker 2: thousand students would be arriving late to school every day.

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Speaker 1: He spoke during an emergency meeting where he described to

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Speaker 1: city councilors some of the challenges, including staffing shortages, mechanical

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Speaker 1: failures or incidents along the route. Counselor Liz Breeden expects more.

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Speaker 3: We pay two hundred million dollars a year for the

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Speaker 3: school transportation, and it's justified his explanation that we pay

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Speaker 3: so much and yet we get such a shoddy.

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Speaker 1: Service at Boston City Hall. James Rojas WBZ Boston Some

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Speaker 1: news radio