{"id":3075,"date":"2017-05-04T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2017-05-04T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T10:20:42","slug":"provincial-government-vote-down-amendments-to-hta-photovideo-evidence-on-school-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/provincial-government-vote-down-amendments-to-hta-photovideo-evidence-on-school-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial Government vote down amendments to HTA &#038; Photo\/Video evidence on School Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 4, 2017 @ 07:17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wynne Liberal government has voted against an important amendment to better protect children getting on and off school buses, an initiative being led by PC Transportation Critic Michael Harris and MPP Rick Nicholls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very disappointed that the Liberal government has rejected a simple idea to help protect children because it came from the Opposition,\u201d Harris said. \u201cSafety issues should not be partisan issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The amendment would have cracked down on dangerous drivers who \u201cblow-by\u201d school buses which are stopped on the roadside and have stop signs extended with lights flashing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe we\u2019ve missed this opportunity to enhance student safety while the Liberals attempt their own baseless blow-by smears,\u201d Nicholls said. \u201cThis has always been about the safety of our children and I\u2019m frustrated the Liberal members couldn\u2019t show their support for that safety today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>City councilors, police officers, and school bus operators have all asked for amendments to be made to the\u00a0<em>Highway Traffic Act\u00a0<\/em>to allow photo\/video evidence to stand alone in courts, similar to how red light camera evidence is treated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2017 @ 07:17 The Wynne Liberal government has voted against an important amendment to better protect children getting on and off school buses, an initiative being led by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[420],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-school-bus"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:20:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}