Whitby Free Press, 15 Oct 1980, p. 1

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a 9 nhol bus wauted1i1Cori dor By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff The Corridor Area Ratepayers Association seem to be ready to do battie wlth both the Town of Whit- by and the Durham Board of Education in an effort to get sehool buses re-instated for highf school students in the Aboaut êo0 >eple .attencled ea public meeting laut week at the Dr. Robert Thornton Public Sehool to express t*er;cncensand worrles about the recently established Whitby Transit Service.ý Thpy unanimously suppor- tek! a motion glving the association authority to ap- proach both bodies to see what can be done about brining back the school buses. Hlgh sehool students lost their transportation priviledges when the town introduced the transit ser- vice earlier this year. According to pollcy laid dow by the board and the provincial goverment tran- sportation will flot be provided for high school students if an "adequate" public service exista. Most of the speakers at the meeting feit that the service was not adequate for their needs of the needs of their children. While moot of them agreed that the service was needed, most of them echoed one speaker's thought that "the service was far from superlor." Another bone of contention was that it was "«totally un- justified to take away our CONT'Dý ON PG. 23 -I~Iun~ .-. What a placce, to park yo ur -car No, thie eeflot an amphibious vehicie. it appears as though some unfortunate, and unidentified people met with a minor accident In the Cranberry Marah Juet weet of the Whitby Peychiatric. Aithough passengerei wae Injured1 the road and ended up ln Lake Ontario. the names of the driver and his The unfortunate driver had to have hie car towed are flot know, It le known that no one out of the lake by a heipt ul tractor driver. ln the accident when the car ran out off -Photo by Bob Richardson I a Se p, 3 . ) F R-JE)E R l"'E

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