The Georgetown City Council approved the first reading of a vehicle and traffic ordinance at its Jan. 28 meeting. Council discussed photographic enforcement of vehicles passing school buses which are loading and unloading students.
Police Chief Wayne Nero spoke about the ordinance, which would allow American Traffic Solutions Inc. to install cameras on Georgetown Independent School District school buses to capture images and video of vehicles that illegally pass a bus with its stop arm extended.
We feel the number of those violations is significant, Nero said. We think we can impact these numbers.
GISD Director of Transportation Walter Prothro told the council at a workshop meeting Nov. 26 the district counted 431 violations Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 25.
