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Chicopee mayor announces plan to add cameras to school buses, sends measure to City Council
Summary
Mayor Vieux told the School Committee the city will seek to install cameras on school buses to ticket drivers who pass when lights are flashing; the proposal is on the City Council agenda and officials expect a summer pilot and training before the school year.
Mayor Vieux told the Chicopee School Committee Monday that the city will move to install cameras on school buses to ticket motorists who fail to stop while buses are loading and unloading students, and that he has placed the measure on the City Council agenda for consideration.
The announcement came during the School Committee's public announcements. Vieux said the procurement office and the school department have already added camera requirements to the request for proposals for the district's next bus contract, and that adoption of the new state statute enabling camera enforcement will allow the city to install…
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