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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-11, Page 25PAGE 8A —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1979 Look for ways to deter joyriders BY JEFF SEDDON The Huron county board of education realized' its October meeting last Monday that it had to keep unwanted traffic out of the Central Huron Secondary School parking lot in Clinton but it couldn't decide how to do it. The board looked at several options to close the lot to unauthorized traffic when it discpvered a situation that' could place students at the school in danger. ' Director of education John Cochrane told the board there had already been one mishap at the school and unless something was done -there could be more. He told the board a student had exited from the school building through a rearentrance and was crossing a drive to go to the athletic field. He said a car •carne around the corner and struck the student in a hit and run accident. Cochrane said the student was not injured in the incident pointing out he was just grazed by the car. But he added that the driver of the vehicle failed to stop. He said students and some teachers at the school felt the incident was deliberate. The problem is with a drive that circles.the rear of the school. At two corners vehicles must make blind turns and at both turns there are'exit doors used by students heading to the athletic field. He said many of the --vehicles 'using the drive are unauthorized and observe dangerous driving practices. • The board's management committee looked into the matter ,and considered several solutions. Speed bumps were considered at a cost of $750 but were denied because the• committee felt they would hamper snow removal. Cochrane looked into the matter in the interest of saving time and suggested to the board that gates be installed,at one of the entrances to curtail unwanted traffic. Cochrane said the gates would cost between $600 and $650 pointing out that they,. may solveone problem but may create others. Along with,' the gates the director said a series of posts could be put in with a cable stretched across the side of the drive to keep motorcycles from entering. But he told the board that the cable may constitute a "head trap" a that could get the board into a great deal of trouble if someone is hurt by it. He told the board the gates may be a short term solution adding that deliveries to the school may force custodians to man the gates during school hours. Seaforth trustee John Henderson asked why the situation couldn't be curtailed with an in- crease in supervision. He suggestedd l I' sp ee hit signs be posted and "enforced" until people realized they couldn't just drive around the school. The Seaforth trustee said buses arriving and leaving the ,school, teachers and students driving into the parking lot and deliveries to the sch001 would force someone to man the gate all day. He added that he saw n1 reason why an Says bus rules are inadequate "The inquest into the deaths of four Metro Toronto high school students last ' January empha4zes once again the inadequacy of school bus driver training and the need for tougher standards for deter- mining the road- worthiness of school buses, according to Doug McAfrd1ess, }president of the 15,000 - member Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation. McAndless made his remarks on the occasion of School Bus Safety Week, which • was celebrated September 23 to 30 for the first time right across Canada. His Federation has been campaigning since 1973 for improvementsin driver -training programs, tougher licensing procedures and overall upgrading of the vehicles used to transport pupils to and from school each day. Some, 600,000 pupilsuse the well-known yellow buses each school day in Ontario. The OPSMTF study contained 39 recom- mendations dealing with all --aspects- of -school bus transportation. Significant among them were calls for "a man- datory' program of job - training before "being permitted to apply for a license to drive a school bus" as well as "man- datory attendance at safety meetings and seminars •sponsored by the Ministry of Tran- sportatio°ri and the Ontario Provincial, Police McAndless noted.' In the matter of school bus design, the Federation called for the development of an ex- perimental or prototype school bus incorporating the results of existing research and taking into account the diverse weather and road con- ditions faced by bus drivers each day. McAndless explained the Federation's concern about school bus drivers had led to the creation two years .ago of a special annual award to recognize their. per- • formance. 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The bottom line on the Barrie inquest into the four January deaths and all other aspects \uf this. tiubj('ct is action, not 110111' e\ idt'nce "Anything fess will:just mean more of the same and that , not good enough for our kids," conclu(l(•d McAndless. You can't plow a field by turning !t uv('t' in yOGI' mind. increase in supervision wouldn't solve the matter. Bayfield trustee R.K. Peck pointed out that the problem has been around a while. He said gates were already tried and were driven through several times, once by a trustee. The board decided to refer the matter back to the management com- mittee for further in- vestigation. Superin- tendent Don Kenwell was nut happy with the delay warning the board that there had already been one accident. "I wonder if we can afford to wait until the next hoard meeting?" he asked. IASTRA IFIC1.,'RY..O.:;UTL.E.T "The Store That Saves You More" r INFLATION4e,.000tot • Boys' Pullovers 4. Keep warm this winter - with Pep Cats by pen- ; • man's. 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