Transportation
Gary Greenhill
Director of Transportation / Biography
Justin Porter
Assistant Director of Transportation / Biography
Weatherline - (918) 357-7065 - Area Weather Forecast
The Transportation Department oversees the safety of our most popular cargo – our students – making they are safe enroute to school, home or school activity. The transportation department also wants students to be safe while they are waiting for the bus.
Bus Stop Information
If you have a question, please contact the Transportation Department by e-mail or phone at (918) 357-7060. Click on the link below to access the routes as well as the bus rider's handbook. Instructions are provided below the links.
Bus Route Information - Ice Route Information
Print/Download Instructions/Tips
Instructions/Tips for Bus Route for School/Transportation information search
- The first screen you see will ask you for a User Name and Password. The User name is guest and the Password is union (all lowercase letters).
- This will take you to a screen with the options to Work with Students or Set Options. As there are really not options to set, select Work with Students.
- You should arrive at the Students and School/Transportation Search page. Click on the School/Transportation Search link.
- On the actual search criteria page, the first step is pretty self explanatory, simply select the grade your student attends. The second step, address information, is a little more complicated. The Zip Code is not required for our district but the House # and Street are and the street address needs to be in a specific format as follows:
- Directions north, south, east and west are their usual abbreviations, N, S, E, and W.
- The st, nd, rd or th on the end of a street number are not used.
• Street types are abbreviated as:- Avenue - Ave
- Street - St
- Court - Ct
- Place - Pl
- Circle - Cir
- Drive – Dr
- Road – Rd
- Directions north, south, east and west are their usual abbreviations, N, S, E, and W.
- Street names need to be complete:
- E 41 St would need to be E 41 St S
- S Sheridan would need to be S Sheridan Rd
- W Washington would need to be W Washington St
- N Willow would need to be N Willow Ave etc.
- Apartment numbers are not needed.
- Example: the address 5656 South 129th East Avenue would have to be entered as 5656 S 129 E Ave in order to return accurate results.
- When you submit your information, it will search the map information. If your address cannot be located it may a list of possible options to select from and you can the rerun the search.
- If it tells you that the Home address could not be located and the address format is correct, your address may be outside the Union District. Contact your child’s school or the Enrollment Center for clarification.
- If your address is found, you will get a page giving you the name of the school of attendance, bus status (ride or walk), the distance from the address to the stop (or school if a walk area), the stop location and the bus number and time. The afternoon information for riders will not show a bus number or arrival time (at the bus stop). The bus number is usually the same AM and PM (most common exception – IHS students who ride a High School bus either to or from school).
- The afternoon return time is not given due to the number of factors that may affect it. As a general rule, 7th or 8th grade students should be home by 3:00 PM, IHS or 6th grade students should be home by 3:30 PM , High School students should be home by 3:45 PM and Elementary students should be home by 4:00 PM.
Ice Route Information and Road Conditions - Download Ice Route Information
Weatherline - (918) 357-7065
Each winter, the Union Public Schools transportation
department is charged with developing routes on which school buses may travel safely during inclement winter weather. While most areas of the district have only minor weather-related problems, the area bounded by Yale and Sheridan and between 76th and 91st Streets require "ice routes."
Ice routes, or alternative bus stops, may be called into use when weather conditions are such that school will go on as scheduled, but because of snow or ice, the hilly roadways in the area become dangerous requiring drivers to use arterial streets instead. Students living in this area have received maps listing the ice route stop for their bus. A copy of these ice routes are also available at each secondary school, Jarman Elementary and Darnaby Elementary. Other elementary schools’ bus routes are not currently affected by ice routes.
Please check local media broadcasts for updated weather information ralting to either ice routes or school closings. Parents may also call the Union Public Schools Weatherline for school closing or ice route information.