With the start of school just days away, many families are now scrambling to find transportation and child care.
HONOLULU (Island News) – Just days before the start of school, there’s not enough bus drivers and child care workers to fill the need.
That’s why more than a hundred bus routes will be temporarily suspended, affecting almost three thousand students.
Bernadette Cuba’s worried about her only child now having to catch the city bus as he enters his first year of high school.
“With all these crimes, I’m just scared,” she said. “I don’t know if people’s going to end up, you know, grabbing him.”
Her son, Blain, is also having anxiety.
“I’m always just worried about people on the bus and off the bus,” he said. “I don’t feel so safe for this.. there’s no way else I can get there besides city bus or walking.”
The change will affect middle and high school students in …