“They barely have a chance to go to the bathroom - and then they have to deal with some difficult people,” she said.Ĭlaudia Stegman said she was was hoping to catch the No. 8 bus, which travels up and down Main Street, for a dentist appointment. “Usually, there’s (a bus) every 10 or 15 minutes, but not today.” “I’ve been here for an hour and 40 minutes,” she said. Particularly hard-hit were students trying to attend their first day of school. “Many students were stranded in the rain this afternoon.” “The students were compelled to use GBT since the Board of Ed changed from providing school buses to giving students a GBT bus pass,” said Gene Holmes, assistant principal at Kolbe Cathedral High School. The timing of the sick days did not sit well with Holmes. “This was a shameful play on the part of bus drivers to call a sick out on the first day of school.” “I went to the bus terminal this morning to greet and assist our students on their first day, only to hear that there was a work stoppage,” he said. Holcomb said a more normal work day is expected Friday.īut, he added, “We’ll have a plan in place to provide service (Friday) if it happens again.

#Gbt bus 15 schedule driversĪnd, I’d like to say that our drivers are doing an exemplary job in dealing with this situation, and we’d like to thank the riders for their Attanasio contributed to this story.But, he said that other parts of Stratford will get improved service.

There will be a new route - 16 - that will shuttle riders between the Stratford railroad station and the Trumbull Corporate Park.