“When I see drivers ignoring our red lights, it’s terrifying, because I know what can happen and I know that all I can do is watch.”
Stephen Narwold is a school bus driver for Grand Rapids Public Schools contractor Dean Transportation. He says parents have been requesting interior and exterior bus cameras for years.
Now, GRPS and Dean are partnering with BusPatrol equipping all 135 buses with interior cameras and exterior stop-arm cameras. These will record passing vehicles when the stop-arm is extended, and flashing red. Democratic State Representative Kristian Grant supported the bipartisan legislation that launched the program…