MORGANTOWN — Starting Monday, students who live on Upper Days Run Road are being picked up in Daybrook after a roadside slide closed the road to bus traffic.
Monongalia County Schools Transportation Director Tony Harris said he was contacted by West Virginia Division of Highways Engineer Fouad Shoukry on Jan. 3.
“He said he’d been out there a week before and looked at the slip. Due to the weight and width of the bus, he said he didn’t feel comfortable having a bus traveling through there until they could make repairs,” Harris said.
Clay-Battelle High/Middle School Principal David Cottrell said the school has four students impacted by the slide. A representative of Mason-Dixon Elementary School said the school has five students who typically ride the bus along that road.
DOH Spokesman Brent Walker said the plan is to have crews on site for a soil nail project starting next week.
“This repair should take a week to perform, again, depending on weather,” Walker said.
Harris said he’s hopeful bus coverage will be back to normal on Jan. 21.
In the meantime, students who live along Upper Days Run are being dropped off and picked up at the Daybrook Church of Christ.
