I'm Toby Good.

>> With kids going back to school this Thursday, parents and the Jefferson County Public School system want to know what they should expect.

Yesterday school leaders talked about the school curriculum sports programs, school lunches and school resource officers.

But the big topic was transportation following the big bust allies last year.

The school district has been hard work, retooling bus routes and trying new strategies.

This includes cutting routes from magnet schools and bringing on drivers from Louisville, Stark Public Transit system.

>> We essentially overhaul the entire transportation system this We started with an internal routing team made up of JCPS bust coordinators, GIs professionals under outing industry and we started from the ground up and work for a new solution for this year and countless hours of gone into that.

We work through this weekend processing the data through our We feel good about our first to scrimmage days.

We have an additional scrimmage day on Wednesday and we will obviously go live on Thursday.

We know that there's a turnaround in team has given us far more mirroring for schools, about 65%, which means the same bus in the morning in the afternoon, which we're very proud of.

We had increased technology on all of our buses this They'll be utilizing increase GPS increase.

Cameras across the buses.

Turn by turn navigation.

And we also know that obviously there's some traffic pattern changes this year.

We have done extensive work and paving Elaine delineation, adding new lanes, new signage, working with schools individually for their traffic plans and modifications.

There are 2 practice our drop off as we ran.

The route was around 06:20PM.

And last year our last drop off was on almost all days was even once we got past first day and got officiants, he's down was around 7 o'clock.

We're expecting to be 7, 15, 7.30, on the first day of school.

>> Just because of the deliberate nature of what we have to do, however, we believe that with our current plan and the efficiencies that will be well, 45 minutes to an hour and of some of the day's from last year.

>> The school year will begin with 560 bus drivers to cover 510 Rouse Superintendent Marty Pollio said that the restoration of any cut bus routes depends on whether at least 70 new drivers are hired through the district's partnership with Park.