Two signs were installed at a home on Bank Street today by the Let’s Remember Adam, Stop for the School Bus campaign, to continue to spread the message to drivers.
The campaign chairman, Pierre Ranger, says a concerned mother reached out to him about drivers failing to stop for buses near her home. Ranger says the campaign’s message is not to keep bringing up that his brother Adam died. The campaign wants to raise awareness so other families don’t have to go through what Ranger’s did. Ranger’s brother Adam was hit and killed by a driver who failed to stop for a school bus in 2000.
Ranger hopes the yard signs being put up in neighborhoods will help to spread the message even further, on top of the billboards set up in town and bumper stickers on people’s cars. Ranger says if more parents are concerned, he has no problem making up more signs and installing them around the city. Until people start getting the memo about stopping for the buses, Ranger will continue running his campaign and spreading the message.
Ranger commended the North Bay Police for their traffic enforcement campaign. Some days people paid attention, some days people didn’t, and that doesn’t surprise Ranger. He knows the police can’t have a cruiser behind every school bus because of the amount of buses that drive around in a day. Ranger sees the possibility of more parents coming forward and asking for signs to be put up in high traffic areas.
Just stopping for the school bus isn’t the only important message Ranger wants to get across. He says people also need to pay more attention to kids walking to and from school, and respecting cross walks. Ranger says he will continue pushing his campaign until people start to listen and stop consistently. Rangers says when years go by and reports of people running school bus lights go away, then he won’t have to push his message as hard.
