Goose Creek ISD fleet runs 200 buses across two million miles
Goose Creek ISD maintains 200 plus buses that will travel over 2 million miles and use about 350000 gallons of diesel this year. The fleet includes 72 passenger Thomas Built buses with air conditioning GPS and video recording. Mechanics number nine and handle advanced diagnostic work, oil changes, and multi point inspections.
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Goose Creek Disd
Stallworth Stadium
Ross S. Sterling
Goose Creek Memorial
Walterscheid
Lee Drive
Walterscheid Looks Ahead to New Baytown Transportation Center
Walterscheid and a small planning team anticipate a new transportation center funded by a May bond issue. The timetable remains open as scope and location are finalized. Rezoning adds three elementary campuses and shifts students for 2014 2015, impacting bus routes and operations. Safety and efficiency remain priorities amid more than 100 daily runs. National School Bus Safety Week saw Texas DPS issue about 60 citations for red light violations and speeding in school zones. Walterscheid stresses community partnership and the responsibility bus drivers and district bear.
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Walterscheid
Baytown
Texas Department of Public Safety
Walterscheidt
Dispatchers serve as ears voice and heart of department
A small team of dispatchers acts as the ears voice and heart of the Transportation Department, handling parent questions and issues. They log action requests for follow-up when answers aren’t immediate, and highlight a diverse, multilingual staff with multiple bilingual dispatchers.
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Transportation Department
Walterscheid
Cruisin Texas Toy Drive brings toys and Buck the dog to Baytown
Children and parents wait outside the community center for the Cruisin Texas Toy Drive volunteers and riders to arrive around 2 p.m. Riders hand out toys, photos with Santa, and Buck the injured but friendly dog will mingle with kids. Donations of toys, money, and volunteers are solicited for December 21 events, with raffles for bicycles and other prizes.
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Reeves
Santa
CVS Pharmacy
Buck
Baytown
Parks and Recreation Department
Texas Toy Drive
Pelican Junction
S. Highway 146
Safekeeping
S. Alexander Drive
Wolf's Leather
Garth Road
Nitro Cycles
West Main
PayPal
Youcaring.com
Frank
Ken “Fat Mack” Williamson
North Alexander
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