Columbus 学区权衡高中生改乘公交：三方案最多省720万美元 COTA今年已漏跑3.2万多趟
位于俄亥俄州富兰克林县的 Columbus 市学区教育委员会10月20日开会，听取让高中生改乘公交上学方案的最新进展。据 The Columbus Dispatch 10月21日报道，目前有4200多名高中生依靠学区黄校车上学，其中包括740名特许学校和私立学校学生；在学区负责接送的9200名学生中，73%可一趟直达，24%需换乘一次，只有3%、即276人需要换乘两次以上或不在公交服务范围内。
行政部门提出三个选项：全部取消高中校车且不发公交卡，可省约720万美元；取消校车但发 COTA 公交卡，省约500万美元；只保留需多次换乘或公交无法到达学生的校车，省约480万美元。方案面临的最大问题是可靠性：该报9月曾披露，COTA 今年前八个月在49.7万多趟班次中漏跑了3.2万多趟，占6.4%，主要原因是其50辆电动巴士（占车队约17%）因制造商 New Flyer 电池缺陷召回、只能充到约75%电量，其贡献的服务时长仅约占3%。
2025年12月，两项直接取消高中校车的议案在争议中被否决，委员会改为一致通过成立工作组，与 COTA 等共同制定方案，行政部门须在今年12月底前向委员会提交正式计划。COTA 区域伙伴关系主任 Aslyne Rodriguez 表示，学生安全、无障碍和可达性仍是首要原则。
（GSM 据 The Columbus Dispatch 报道）
Columbus District Weighs Putting High Schoolers on COTA Buses: Three Options Save Up to $7.2 Million as COTA Misses 32,000-Plus Trips
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus City Schools Board of Education, in Franklin County, Ohio, met on October 20 for an update on a plan that could put high school students on public buses. According to The Columbus Dispatch on October 21, more than 4,200 high school students currently rely on district yellow buses, including 740 charter and private school students. Of the 9,200 students the district is responsible for transporting, 73 percent could reach school in a single ride, 24 percent would need one transfer, and only 3 percent, or 276 students, would need two or more transfers or are outside COTA's service range.
Administrators presented three options: cancel all high school busing without providing COTA passes, saving an estimated $7.2 million; cancel busing but provide COTA passes, saving about $5 million; or keep yellow buses only for students with multiple transfers or no bus access, saving about $4.8 million. Reliability is the biggest obstacle: the Dispatch reported in September that COTA missed more than 32,000 of its more than 497,000 trips in the first eight months of this year, or 6.4 percent, largely because its 50 electric buses, about 17 percent of the fleet, are under a New Flyer battery-defect recall and can be charged only to about 75 percent, contributing only about 3 percent of service hours.
In December 2025, two measures to cancel high school busing outright failed after contentious debate, and the board instead voted unanimously to form a work group to develop a plan with COTA and other leaders; the administration must present a formal plan to the board by the end of December. Aslyne Rodriguez, COTA's director of regional partnerships, said student safety, accessibility and readiness remain the priority. (GSM, based on The Columbus Dispatch reporting)
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图片来源：Columbus 市中心 COTA 巴士资料图。图片：中央俄亥俄交通局（COTA）官网 cota.com。 / A COTA bus in downtown Columbus, file photo. Photo: Central Ohio Transit Authority, via cota.com.
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