cameras to help catch violators, and to allow the Kansas State Depart- ment of Education to contract with private vendors for the installation. In Indiana, after an October 2018
incident in which three children died and a fourth was critically injured by an illegally passing ve- hicle, the state passed a new law in time for the 2019-2020 school year. School bus drivers are now required to pick up or drop off elementary school students where they don’t have to cross the roadway, unless there are no other safe alternatives. Rochester Schools Corporation in
Indiana responded to the aforemen- tioned illegal passing incident that occurred in its neighboring district by voluntarily deciding that students would no longer cross highways and busier main roads. “We didn’t have to change that many routes,” said Kim Long, an education specialist with Rochester Schools. “A few routes were longer because of finding places to turn around, but not by that much. We also have cameras that face front, and cameras on the side of the bus.” As in Avery County, a sheriff’s
deputy views a copy of the video and proceeds from there. “About 80-percent of the violators are high school students,” commented Skee- ter Daugherty, Rochester Schools’ resource officer. “One of our main problem areas are our trailer courts. Some are large complexes, and two buses pick up [in] the area, but the roads are privately owned. The trailer court has built the roads, put in the signage and maintains it, but all of them have signed consent forms so that we can enforce illegal passing within their boundaries.” Similar thinking on safe crossing has been in place for many years in Ithaca City School District in New York state. Former Transportation Supervisor Jim Ellis made the deci- sion to re-organize routes so that no students who lived on main roads would cross. Although travelling to a safe place to turn around and dou- bling back lengthened some routes,
the policy has improved student safety. Current transportation director Elizabeth Berner agreed. “Not having
students cross on the main roads is one of the best practices we have,” she said. “Also, since the buses aren’t stopped for as long on those busier roads, it helps eliminate the traffic accumulating behind the bus.” ●
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