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A west Michigan lawmaker wants school buses in the state to be retrofitted with lights that read: “Stop Do No Pass,” in the middle of the buses back door.
State Representative Holly Hughes says the goal is to stop people from passing busses illegally and she says a pilot program conducted last fall shows it works.
For two weeks bus drivers in 10 school districts logged the number of people who passed them illegally with the lights off and then spent two weeks doing the same with the lights on.
Hughes says the lights spawned a 43 percent drop in the number of cars illegally passing a stopped bus.
Hughes says only new buses would be required to get the lights however if parent-teacher organizations wanted to hold a fundraiser to add the lights to old buses they could.
The measure was aired last week in a House committee.
