{"id":48217,"date":"2024-09-05T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=48217"},"modified":"2024-09-05T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:35:27","slug":"east-hants-rcmp-urging-motorists-to-leave-earlier-with-schools-back-be-wary-on-their-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=48217","title":{"rendered":"East Hants RCMP urging motorists to leave earlier with schools back, be wary on their commute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILFORD:<\/strong> School is back, and East Hants School Safety Resource Officer, Const. Andrew Ouellette, has some advise for East Hants motorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wants to remind commuters to leave a little earlier in the mornings now that school buses are picking up students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTraffic will be a little congested due to school starting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Ouellette is asking motorists to be aware of the students walking to their bus stops and for parents to ensure their children are walking on the correct side of the road and are looking both ways before crossing the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGetting to school safely is dependent on parents, students and motorists all obeying the law and paying attention while doing so.,\u201d said Const. Ouellette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said during the last school year there were a number of incidents where impatient drivers passed stopped school buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is dangerous, and we will be looking at charging drivers who do this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP will be increasing patrols and radar enforcement this school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want our children getting to, and from, school safely,\u201d said Const. Ouellette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease drive carefully and obey the posted speed limits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MILFORD: School is back, and East Hants School Safety Resource Officer, Const. Andrew Ouellette, has some advise for East Hants motorists. He wants to remind commuters to leave a little earlier in the mornings now that school buses are picking up students. \u201cTraffic will be a little congested due to school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[5917,196,14,7313,154,475],"class_list":["post-48217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-const-andrew-ouellette","tag-east-hants","tag-rcmp","tag-school-safety","tag-students","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}