CITYWIDE — A SCHOOL BUS LOCKOUT THAT WOULD HAVE STRANDED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS STARTING ON MONDAY WAS AVERTED, the Daily News reported on Thursday night, Oct. 30 . Several of the 52 bus companies with which the city has contracts threatened to stop operating when their contracts expired, a move that would also have led to drivers and attendants being laid off.

The buses had been operating on emergency extensions since their contract renewal had expired last summer. While 27 of the bus companies signed emergency extensions earlier during October, the remaining operators also announced that they would do the same in a development that city education authorities confirmed to the Daily News.

The emergency extension also buys time for negotiations for city officials to hammer out be

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