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Officials to unveil measures to prevent school bus delays

Lesson learned, department works to avert tardiness

By Eric Moskowitz and Zachary T. Sampson

 |  Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent  

  May 22, 2012

Boston school leaders are expected Tuesday to unveil measures intended to avoid the widespread, prolonged bus delays that marred the first months of this school year. Instead of waiting until the summer to draft bus routes for the 2012-13 academic year, that planning has already begun. And drivers will get a look at routes and schedules long before sliding behind the wheel of their yellow buses. That didn’t happen last September, when new, computer-drawn routes failed to take into account Boston traffic or how long it takes to pick up and drop off students.

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