EASTON, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — An old transit bus is getting a second life thanks to the hard work of students from a local vocational school.
A group of students from five different vocational programs at Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School teamed up to refurbish a decommissioned bus from the Brockton Area Transit Authority. They spent months repairing, restoring, and upgrading the bus so it could be used by the MassHire Greater Brockton Workforce Board.
The bus is now a classroom on wheels with workstations, televisions, wifi, and a whiteboard. The bus will be used by the MassHire Greater Brockton Workforce Board to help offer workforce training for different industry certifications and more. The students were also able to make the bus fully handicap accessible.
Stephen Bamford is one of the students who worked on the bus, and he said he and his classmates…