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Marietta City Schools Honor School Bus Safety

The 2013 National School Bus Safety Week theme is "At my Stop - You Stop!" The CrossingGuard school bus arm safety solution mounts purpose-built cameras on the side of the school bus.

Marietta City Schools (MCS) honors National School Bus Safety Week, Oct. 21-25, 2013. Georgia School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day is Oct. 21. 

MCS has 98 school buses and transports nearly 6,300 students to and from school each school day.

The 2013 National School Bus Safety Week theme is “At my Stop - You Stop!”

“Each year during School Bus Safety Week, we urge parents and community members to recognize the importance of school bus safety,” said Mark Lindstrom, MCS Director of Transportation. “Motorists are required to stop for stopped school buses that are displaying flashing red lights and a stop arm.”

This school year, MCS and American Traffic Solutions (ATS) deployed CrossingGuard, ATS’ new technology to help address the growing problem of illegal passing of stopped school buses that are boarding or disembarking children.

The CrossingGuard school bus arm safety solution mounts purpose-built cameras on the side of the school bus. When the stop arm is deployed, the camera automatically detects a vehicle illegally passing the stop arm in either direction and captures video of the violation and still images of a vehicle‘s license plate. City of Marietta law enforcement reviews the violation video and license plate images prior to issuing a citation.

"ATS will equip ten additional Marietta City school buses with stop arm cameras bringing the total number of buses with stop arm cameras to twelve. Eventually we plan to have one-third of our bus fleet equipped with this technology to help reduce the number of stop arm violations across the district,” Lindstrom said.

“It is imperative that drivers are aware of the dangers of illegally passing school buses. Drivers that are not educated on the Georgia School Bus Stop laws unintentionally put students’ lives in danger.”


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