From deploying onboard cleaning systems to receiving mask donations for students, pupil transporters are making sure the school bus is the safest mode of transportation for students.
PHOTOS: Keeping the School Bus Safe During COVID-19
Mary Martin, one of KWRL’s bus drivers, volunteered to take on the extra work of disinfecting buses at the end of each day. She is shown here mixing the cleaning solution for the electrostatic sprayers.
Photo courtesy Eric Jacobson, Woodland (Wash.) Public Schools
In December, Marietta City (Ga.) Schools added Bus Clean Air Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization systems on all 67 of its buses to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Photo courtesy Marietta City Schools
The VioSafe lights, which shine across a 12-foot radius, are reportedly proven to provide continuous disinfection of high-touch surfaces, increasing protection against coronavirus and other viruses and bacteria.
Photo courtesy Denver Public Schools
Denver (Colo.) Public Schools equipped 10 of its school buses with disinfecting lights in December.
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KWRL, a transportation cooperative that provides service to four Washington school districts, sanitizes each of its school buses using electrostatic fogging sprayers that spray an evaporating cleaning solution.
Photo courtesy Eric Jacobson, Woodland (Wash.) Public Schools
The systems, which can reportedly remove more than 99% of coronavirus from the air, are designed using charged ions that attach to particles, pathogens, and gases to break them down.
Photo courtesy Marietta City Schools
Christy McWhirter, a driver for Metro Nashville (Tenn.) Public Schools, set up an Amazon wish list in November so community members could donate cloth masks for her students to wear while on the bus. She received nearly 300 mask donations.
Photo courtesy Christy McWhirter