Buses
Attention Parents and Students
Dear Parents and Guardians,
As we begin the new school year, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks for your continued support and understanding. Ensuring the safety and efficiency of our school bus routes is a top priority, and we appreciate your patience as we make any necessary adjustments.
During the first few weeks of school, we kindly ask for your patience as students, families, and drivers adjust to new routes, drop-offs, pick-ups, and neighborhood traffic. There may be a grace period of a few minutes for bus arrivals and departures as everyone settles into the new routines.
Why Adjustments Are Necessary:
- Student Safety: We are constantly reviewing and optimizing our routes to ensure the safest possible travel for our students. This includes considering factors such as traffic patterns, road conditions, and the locations of bus stops.
- Efficiency: Adjusting routes helps us minimize travel time and fuel consumption, ensuring that buses run on time and reduce environmental impact.
- Changing Demographics: As new families move into the district and others relocate, we need to update our routes to accommodate these changes and ensure that all students have access to transportation.
What to Expect:
- Communication: We will keep you informed of any significant changes to bus routes or schedules. Please check your text, email and our school district’s website regularly for updates.
- Feedback: We value your input. If you have any concerns or suggestions regarding the bus routes, please contact Transportation at transportation-enews@issaquah.wednet.edu. Initial requests will be addressed by the Transportation team.
- Temporary Delays: As we implement these changes, there may be temporary delays. We ask for your understanding and patience during this period as we work to improve the system.
- You can download the Versatrans MyStop App which will allow you to view the estimated arrival time for your student's bus. Information on the app is on our website under buses.
- Bus passes will be available after September 20th, 2024.
- Elink will be open for viewing the 2024-2025 bus routes on August 22nd. Please go to the district website to view directions for logging into Elink on or after August 22nd. We highly encourage you to login as soon as possible after the portal opens. Do not wait until the evening before school starts just in case there is an issue with your login or your route. It takes time to correct issues, and we do not want there to be a delay in your student’s ability to ride the bus.
We understand that these changes can be challenging, but they are essential for optimizing our transportation system and ensuring that all students arrive at school safely and on time. Our drivers are diligently maintaining bus counts to document the number of students on each route, which helps us make informed adjustments as needed.
Thank you for your patience and support. Together, we can ensure a smooth and successful transition into the new school year.
E-Link login procedure to find your bus route
Username and password – unique to E-Link (NOT your Skyward Family Access login)
- Your username will follow this format: studentfirstname.studentlastname If the student has more than one first or last name, the system will put either a space or a hyphen between the names. Please look at how your student's name is entered in Skyward Family Access to determine if it is a space or hyphen.
Examples:- jennifer.lang for a student named "Jennifer Lang"
- jennifer.lang smith or jennifer.lang-smith for a student named "Jennifer Lang Smith"
- Your password will be the student's date of birth in this format: MMDDYYYY . Please note that the password does not contain any dashes or periods.
Example:- 03152015 for a student born on March 15, 2015
Click one of the links below to login to either your student's General Elink to view 24-25 bus route information or Snow E-Link (not available until October) to look up inclement weather stops.
Click here to login to General Elink to view 2024- 2025 Bus Route Information
Please have your student at the snow route stop 5 minutes prior to their normal bus stop time unless there is a school delay. If there is a delay, your pick up time is one or two hours after your normal bus stop time. Please have your student dressed for the weather. It is our goal to have the buses arrive on time to the snow route stops, but delayed buses are a possibility. If the alternate stop is used in the morning for pick up, the same location will be used in the afternoon for drop-off. If the information in Snow E-link is the same as your student's regular E-link information, your student does not have an alternate snow stop location.
Once logged in, click "students" from the menu at the top.
Click "View My Students."
Select your student.
Bus information will display. There will also be an option to print a PDF version of routes.
Login issues
If you are having trouble logging in on E-Link, please try these tips before contacting the Transportation department.
- Does your student have a common name? Try adding ".1" after their name. For example: john.smith.1
- Make sure you used the correct password format (MMDDYYYY).
- Make sure you are using the correct E-link login information and NOT your Skyward Family Access login information.
- Make sure you are using the correct E-link and NOT the Snow E-link. Snow E-link information will not be available until October.
- If you marked any part of your student's file as confidential (phone number, address) you will not be able to use E-Link to login to view your student's bus route. You will need to contact Transportation to obtain your student's route information.
If you are still having issues logging in, please email Transportation.
EDA- Extended Day Activity Routes
EDA routes for the 2024-2025 school year remain metro style stops. Please click on the link below to find a stop closest to your residence.
Activity Routes can now be found here Extended Day Activity Routes