A company that gets students to and from school says it wasn’t easy, but they have brokered a deal for 35 new and late-model 72-passenger buses.

City Wide Bus and Taxi will have them in service in the next couple of weeks to help put a dent in the number of children without public transportation. As it stands, about 6,100 students will have to find their own way to school but Chris Duke of City Wide says the additional buses will be a big help.

The capacity on the large buses has been reduced to 46.

Duke says the manufacturing plants in the US did not reopen until late June/early July.

He says they have been working with the school district and Department of Education to procure 72-passenger buses to help alleviate the capacity issue.