DAYTON — There are concerns over the best way for high school students to get to class in Dayton.
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As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, community leaders believe the RTA hub is not the right spot for high school students.
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This comes just over two weeks after 18-year-old Alfred Hale, a Dunbar High School student, was shot and killed near the RTA hub in Downtown while transferring buses on April 4.
As previously reported on News Center 7, calls for service at the RTA hub in Dayton have increased by almost 1,000 since 2022.
News Center 7’s Mason Fletcher says it has people concerned about students.
Community leaders are calling on Dayton’s leaders to come up with solutions.
“It’s going to take everyone to come up with evidence-based strategies and practices that these children deserve,” said Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, with Racial Justice Now.
One idea is to use RTA for limited service routes designed directly for students.
“Routes open to the public, but they were specifically designed to better meet the needs of school transportation, so they went more from schools to neighborhoods,” said Bob Ruzinsky, Greater Dayton RTA CEO.
We will continue to update this story.
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