LOCKPORT, N.Y. — School bus service
provider Ridge Road Express
Inc. celebrated its 80th anniversary in
October with the opening of its new
4,800-sq. ft. dispatch and classroom
facility.
The new facility houses Ridge
Road’s transportation supervisors for
Lockport City School District and Starpoint
Central School District in Lockport,
N.Y., their assistants, and the fi eld
trip, athletic and charter transportation
coordinator.
The building also includes a
100-person classroom, which will allow
the company to hold Lockport
and Starpoint school bus driver meetings
in-house. Other improvements
to the four-acre site include a well-lit,
newly paved 130-car employee parking
lot.
“This new office setting is more conducive
to the fast pace of school bus
dispatch,” Ridge Road Express President
R. Thomas Weeks said. “Now, coordinating
the 96 buses, 72 vans and
nearly 200 employees for these two
districts will be more streamlined and
efficient than ever before.”
Ridge Road Express Inc. was founded
in 1928 and purchased by Ralph A.
Weeks, R. Thomas Weeks’ father, in 1929.
It originated as a two-bus operation and
currently operates 160 large school buses
and 140 vans that serve the Starpoint,
Lockport, Barker, Newfane and Royalton
Hartland school districts, among others.