DAYTON — City officials are calling for bus safety reform after an 18-year-old was shot and killed outside an RTA Hub last week.
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Dunbar High School student Alfred Hale was shot outside the RTA Hub in Downtown Dayton early Friday morning.
“This is tragic. Young life lost simply trying to get to school. This is heartbreaking, and again, a tragedy,” Dayton Mayor Jeff Mims said.
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Mims and State Representative Phil Plummer (R-Dayton) spoke about how they plan to find a solution to the current Dayton Public Schools RTA transportation program.
“It’s time we come up with solutions to this problem,” Plummer said.
“We can’t continue to put our children in harm’s way,” Mims said.
Plummer added an amendment to the state’s operating budget that would make it so students could no longer be transferred at downtown stations on their way to school.
This amendment would have to pass the Ohio Senate and be signed off by the Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
The goal of getting this amendment pushed into law along with the budget is to create a conversation about student’s transportation safety, according to Plummer.
“We’re going to get everybody to the table. We all have ideas. Let’s solve this problem,” Plummer said.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, Dayton Public Schools buy public passes for students to ride the bus.
RTA’s CEO Robert Ruzinsky said there’s been multiple conversations about how to better transport students to school, they just ‘haven’t had an answer.’
“I think maybe this will push the answer that schools need to bus their children,” Ruzinsky said.
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