ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Catching the Sunshine Bus in St. Augustine was always the issue for visually impaired students at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
"You basically have to stand on a corner somewhere where it's safe for a bus to pull over and flag it down," said Edward Clark with the Sunshine Bus Company.
With no designated stops or signs, they just couldn't see it coming.
"I was just as nervous as the kids were because I can sort of flag down yellow objects, but it could be a cement mixer," said FSDB teacher Margaret Galligan.
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Galligan is legally blind herself. When she heard that the Sunshine Bus Company designated their first bus stop right in front of her school, she wanted to be one of the first to try it out.
Action News took the ride with Galligan and four of her students. There was no stress, just smiles and even a group selfie. A ride to St. George Street for lunch was for once an easy trip.
"For me that's personally and professionally liberating," said Galligan.
With more than 22,000 rides just for the month of March, the company has decided to put designated stops in St. Augustine and the beaches, to cut down on traffic.
"That's a lot of people and a lot of stops and if we're stopping every block or so that's very inefficient," said Clark.
Rolling out soon is the connector bus that helps get more people like Galligan, where they need to be faster.