EDITOR:
Regarding motorists not stopping for school buses, I thought compelled to write a note. There seems to be more incidents from year to year, with distracted drivers and those that don't think it's an issue to pass a bus when it's stopped with red lights flashing. We see motorists not yielding the right of way, pulling over or slowing down for police, fire and EMS when emergency equipment is activated.
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This puts lives at risk, every day. My children travel on school buses, and the news of vehicles not stopping worries me greatly. There have been letters to the editor, with valid suggestions on how to make it safer. Just last week, in an initiative to lessen the risk, my daughter's bus driver dropped off children on the closest side to their driveways, then turned around and headed back in the other direction, to drop the others off on the same side of the road as their driveways. No crossing the road necessary. Thank you for this.
If this method is not sustainable, my suggestion, for dropping off, can the bus driver the keep the doors of the bus closed, until traffic is stopped on either side of the road? Then, the driver could open the doors, children could exit and still have to exercise safety by looking both ways before crossing. When picking up children, could there be a horn or similar audible signal, to advise that's it's safe to cross the road, once all traffic has stopped?
Andrew Cross,
Montague
