As long as it was within its competence, the Department of the Channel was distributing yellow reflective vests to students using school transport. The Normandy Region did not follow…
The departmental councilor of La Manche delegate for road safety, Dominique Morel, is angry with the regional council of Normandy, which took over the organization of school transport.
In a message communicated Friday, September 30, she does not go in four ways:
“I note, for the start of the 2018-2019 school year, that student safety is not a priority! The regional council has decided to no longer make the yellow vest with reflective materials mandatory in school buses. How can we make such a decision, when they have not yet distributed a single yellow vest since September 1, 2017! ”
“It worked well”
The Manchester election exposes the context that exasperates him all the more:
When we take a skill, we do not wait. It should have been prepared upstream. In addition, staff who intervenes on this competence for the Region cannot ignore what we were doing in the Channel, they were already in charge of transport for the Department, including awareness. ”
In January 2014, the departmental council of La Manche had made it mandatory to wear the yellow vest for all schoolchildren and users of a school bus or a regular line of the department.
Until the fall of 2017, he funded and handed yellow vests to all students returning to sixth grade.
The Region argues on the time to harmonize practices between the five departments, deplores the elected. But is there not rather a will not continue this action deployed by the Department of the Channel since the others did not? I do not see where the complexity of the thing is; it worked well. ”
We see the child at 150 m, against 30 m if he does not have a vest.
The elected representative wishes to recall:
A person wearing a yellow vest with the reflective tape is seen 150 meters against 30, for those who do not wear it! ”
For this school year, the departmental council of La Manche suddenly made the choice to take again this load and for a budget of € 12,500, will distribute about 6,000 vests after the holidays of All Saints to middle school students in 6th in the 73 establishments of the Channel.
Contacted on the subject, the Regional Council of Normandy did not respond to our call.