HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-11, Page 25PAGE 8A —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1979
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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. The 1979
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The accumulation of
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aspect of pupil bus
transportation can he
considered unimportant.
"Safety costs money,
however," and according
to the OPSMTF
president, "tends to
counterbalance the great
potential to establish and
mobilize programs , to
safeguard the health and
welfare of children."
The bottom line on the
Barrie inquest into the
four January deaths and
all other
aspects \uf
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tiubj('ct is action, not
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"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.
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