I hope you also called the bus company and reported it.

First Student buses, FOR YEARS, have been flying down Front St. For a while, many of us called management there.Nothing. We have spoken to the city. Nothing. The First Student bus company does not seem to care that their drivers speed. So, instead, I have been working to get speed bumps along the stretch of Front b/w Lewis and Grand. I have spoken to our new alderperson, Gabe Santiago, about this. We should all contact him and the city until we have speed bumps, because First Student likely will not fix the problem.

I will put in a call to Gabe Santiago. I know calling the bus company is useless. Thanks, Maria

I agree this has been a longstanding problem, and I too received no satisfaction after calling the company. When talking to the alderman, I'd suggest getting NHPD involved. If one school bus got pulled over and ticketed for a moving violation, I suspect we'd see a real change finally.

You might get a better response from Tedi Barra at the Transportation Department of NHPS. I have had a much better experience dealing with her than with First Student in dealing with unsafe bus driver behavior.

Also consider contacting your local legislators about supporting Intersection Safety Cameras/Red Light Cameras.

Not to add fuel to this fire but I recently spoke to the individual that runs First Student after Tedi Barra didn't return any emails or calls. I live on Front Street and my son has started taking the bus this year. I was unable to get a bus stop close to my house because "buses are not allowed on Front Street" (yes, I almost exploded when I was told this). Needless to say when I spoke to the manager of First Student he was surprised to learn how many buses are driving on Front Street. He proceeded to tell me how difficult it is to get the drivers to comply with the rule. So the only people to blame are the bus drivers! He has disciplined many drivers for taking the Front Street route. Since my discussion with him I have noticed the bus traffic has lessened, typically 6 buses go by before my son's bus arrives, lately it's only been one or two. He assumed that things were better since he hadn't heard any complaints about the bus traffic on Front.

I recently found out that the city does not have a calibrated speed detector so the police are unable to pull anyone over for speeding just running stop signs. Front Street residents you have probably seen cars getting pulled over, it's for running the stop sign. The police are not able to ticket for speeding because of the uncalibrated detector and also their window tint meter is in need of calibration so they can't do anything about that either. Tax dollars hard at work :(
That being stated, I am very thankful for all the cars getting pulled over for running the stop sign. Too bad a rouge bus hasn't been stopped.

I have seen several school buses running red lights lately. One blew through a stop sign (at a 2-way stop) and almost hit a driver last week. Perhaps the drivers need some retraining.

We now monitor SCF regularly for these issues and will follow up on complaints about city vehicles driving unsafely/illegally with appropriate action, and forward complaints about buses to CT Transit. Unsafe school buses are obviously a significant concern. I am closing this item because of its age, but please report any new incidents and be sure to include as much identifying information as possible.