Q. Lauri brings to our attention students waiting for the Leon County School bus sitting in the street, in predawn darkness. There is nowhere for the children to sit down at the Harriet Drive and Ruth Drive Intersection which is designated a Leon County School Bus stop. My husband is offering to build a bench to give the children a place to sit away from the street when it was advised by an individual reading the Nextdoor post to contact Street Scene.
A. Letting Street Scene know of children sitting in the road during darkness warrants an immediate solution. We notified Superintendent of Schools Rocky Hanna as soon as your letter came to my attention, Lauri. Street Scene joins Lauri, all parents and concerned neighbors in resolving this frightening development. Hanna has assured Street Scene he will look into this immediately.
With daylight getting short and hours of darkness increasing it’s the time of year children become more vulnerable to vehicular traffic while waiting for school buses during the confusing morning civil twilight and the more dangerous total darkness. After school bus trips can have children arriving at their bus stop as darkness falls then walking home after nightfall. Drivers stay vigilant.