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School bus services on Thursday were pre-emptively cancelled Wednesday afternoon in advance of the heavy snowstorm expected to rumble through the Ottawa region and eastern Ontario.
The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority issued its cancellation notice just after 3 p.m., saying that all school bus and van transportation would be cancelled on Thursday for both English and French Catholic and public schools within the City of Ottawa.
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The OSTA advisory also said that OC Transpo 600-series routes for students assigned to public transit would also not operate on Thursday.
The Ottawa Catholic School Board posted on its website that its schools would still be open on Thursday. The OCDSB also has a “professional activity day” scheduled for Friday, meaning there will be no classes for students that day.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board posted online that “kindergarten information nights” for General Vanier Public School and Manotick Public School, scheduled for Thursday night, had been postponed by one week to Feb. 20.
Meanwhile, the Consortium de transport scolaire de l’Est announced that school transportation in all its regions would also be cancelled on Thursday because of the storm, impacting the French public and Catholic school systems in eastern Ontario.
As with the OSTA’s advisory, however, the consortium said schools were expected to remain open unless local boards advised otherwise.
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