Make School Buses Obey the Law

Our children need your help. As we are finding out, the problem of reckless School Bus drivers is a global one. While signing this petition is showing support for one small neighborhood in Sarasota Florida trying to make some changes, we are expanding the reach of the petition to thousands of communities that need our help too. Once signed, please follow up with us on the Contact page of www.Fail2Stop.com, and we can try adding your officials to the Petition to demand action be taken against reckless Bus drivers and policy be initiated to see that it will never happen again.

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In Sarasota, Florida, residents have been video taping School busses recklessly running 'Stop' signs with middle-school children on board. More than three months of emails and video on YouTube and http://www.fail2stop.com/ have done nothing to stop the dangerous behavior.

Several emails to our Commissioner Nora Patterson have done nothing. A deputy "watching" the intersection, at the exact time we told them the buses ran the intersection, missed a bus with several small children on board running the 'stop sign. We immediately showed him security camera video of what he "missed."

There are more teenagers that die in Florida from traffic related accidents than anywhere else in the country. We need the School buses and County officials to lead by example rather than teaching our children the reckless behavior we see them doing every day on our roads.

We are sending the three following demands to our County Commissioner, our two Senators as well as our Congressman. One deals with rescinding the Sarasota County School Bus contract if another bus runs a Stop sign. The other two are to help us with fixing our road and community in an effort make it safer for all.

We have several hundred hand written signatures, but we need larger communities to help.

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 We, the undersigned, call on Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Representative Vern Buchanan, and Commissioner Nora Patterson to call both the Bus company and Sarasota County School Board to formerly request School busses to Stop at Stop signs in Sarasota County.

Several complaints have been made by residents along South Lockwood Ridge Road and Ashton Road to both the School Board as well as the County Contracted Bus Company with regard to School Busses running through the Stop signs at the intersection of South Lockwood Ridge Road and Ashton Road with no results. As seen on www.Fail2Stop.com for three months, School Busses continue to run the Stop signs at the intersection.

We are formally requesting the County to rescind their contract with the bus company if another School Bus runs a Stop sign in Sarastoa County.

***************************Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Representative Vern Buchanan, and Commissioner Nora Patterson ****************************************

 We, the undersigned, call on Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Representative Vern Buchanan, and Commissioner Nora Patterson to cease the planning and development, under the Capital Improvement project or any other county development plans, of the corner lot in the center of our neighborhood (parcel num 0088-02-00031 - Corner of Ashton Road and South Lockwood Ridge Road).

There is no need to place a county utility, or one for metering sewage from miles away in the middle of our neighborhood when there is plenty of county owned land a short distance down both South Lockwood Ridge Road and Ashton Road that would be out of site. Aside, Sarasota County has failed to maintain the property resulting in a build up of trash and debris over the course of a year which resulted in Code enforcement Case # 11111079.

 ***************************Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Representative Vern Buchanan, and Commissioner Nora Patterson ****************************************

We, the undersigned, call on Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Representative Vern Buchanan, and Commissioner Nora Patterson to change the designation of South Lockwood Ridge Road in the Comprehensive Plan (North of Clark Road (Hwy 72) and South of where it dead-ends at Red Bug Slough Park) from a "Major Collector" road to a "neighborhood" road. South Lockwood Ridge Road has no outlet aside from two neighborhood roads, Gypse and Ashton. The current designation sends thousands of cars and tractor trailers into the dead-end road with only two small neighborhood roads as outlets