Illegal Passing Laws Urged

Experience is Evidence of a Larger Problem

ALBANY, NY (06/04/2008)(readMedia)-- The New York Association for Pupil Transportation will hold a press conference at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 6, 2008. The press conference will be held at the main entrance of the Holiday Inn/Albany at 205 Wolf Road in Albany, N.Y.

The purposes of the press conference will be to:

➢ Discuss potential legislative initiatives that would address the problem of illegal passing of school buses.

➢ Share the results from statewide efforts to track the incidence of illegal passing of school buses, including preliminary findings of a project in Syracuse where a school bus is equipped with an ELSAG mobile license plate reader to identify illegally passers.

Members of the Association from several parts of the state will be on hand for the press conference.

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