Harris said school buses are often overlooked when it comes to school safety.
Ontario was likely the last one to enact it. This is a protocol that is already in place in every other jurisdiction in North America, said Harris.
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This new aid light amber system will enhance the safety for all drivers and students when boarding and exiting a school bus across the province,” Murphy said last week. “Next week, 18,000 school buses will hit the roads across the province of Ontario. A clear distinction between the advanced warning and the “you must stop” phase of the warning system,” he said. And then when the bus comes to a full stop, the amber lights turn off, and the red warning lights start to flash. “The system uses four amber lights to warn that the bus is about to stop. The red and amber light system is called the Eight Lamp Amber-Red Warning System, said Rob Murphy, president of School Bus Ontario. To mark the occasion, Harris was at the Elliott Coach Lines location in Elmira September 2, joined by regional Chair Karen Redman. The province provided $4 million for the project. The buses were retrofitted this summer, and included about 80,000 lamps changed over on nearly 20,000 buses. Last year Mike Harris, Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga, had his private member’s bill passed to have these four amber lamps installed on every Ontario school bus built since 2005. New this year, however, are four amber lamps. As the school year gets underway, kids across the province are climbing onto buses with the familiar four red lamps.
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