POLL: Sask. Rivers wants cameras on its buses
The Saskatchewan Rivers School Division is now considering outfitting all school buses with routes in its fleet with exterior and interior surveillance cameras this fall following a pilot project.
The pilot project began in November and finished at the end of January. One bus on the school division’s rural routes had the cameras installed on its interior and exterior.
“In most cases, it’s not for the student behaviour on the bus, but rather for drivers that go through where the bus stops and has its arms extended, they go past the bus when they’re supposed to stop. Those are the things that concern us in terms of student safety and that’s what we’ve seen on the buses,” said Donald Lloyd, the chief financial officer of the school division.
Through the pilot project, the school division found that when the buses stop, traffic is supposed to stop in both directions for the students to be let off of the vehicles.