£1.6m taxi fare for WELB kids
THE people of Northern Ireland paid out over one-and-a-half million pounds in taxi fares in order to take pupils to schools in the Western Education and Library Board (WELB) during the 2010/11 academic year.
Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the cumulative taxi fare was £1,630,000 during that year, the last for which figures were available.
During the same year the people forked out £14,023,000 on school buses. This figure includes all buses provided by Translink, Education and Library Boards and private operators.
In July the Sentinel revealed the people of Northern Ireland paid out £6.8m in taxi fares to take pupils to schools in WELB over the past five years.
In 2011 the paper reported how taxi firms in the WELB area were getting £1.60 a mile ferrying children with special needs to school when community transport could do the same job for a fraction of the cost.
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