‘Most dangerous turn’: Parents in rural N.S. worried about new school bus stop
Global News
According to parents in a rural community near Rawdon, N.S., road conditions make a new bus stop location unsuitable and dangerous.
No lighting, unpaved, wild animals, and speeding cars on a sharp turn.
According to parents in a rural community near Rawdon, N.S., those conditions make a new bus stop location unsuitable and dangerous.
“It’s the most dangerous turn on our road. It’s almost a 90-degree turn. In the wintertime, we’ve seen multiple cars go off this road,” said parent Mieke Eisenhauer.
“There’s no lighting on this road. There’s no sidewalks. It’s a dirt road and people fly (through), and there’s wild animals.”
The bus stop they’ve used for many years has been removed and placed several kilometres away — on a sharp corner of a secluded dirt road.
The parents say they were caught off guard by the route change and received little notice.
Neighbours in the area are apparently also expressing their discontent. On Thursday, a sign that read ‘Do not use property/road as a bus stop!’ was put up near the stop on the first day of school.
To further complicate matters, some parents say they were told their past bus stop was removed and they no longer qualified for transportation because they were out of the catchment area.
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