Trustees are calling on the public to take better care when bright yellow school buses start flashing red.
Sharel Warrington said by January of this school year bus, drivers had reported 68 incidents of being passed when stopped to pick up or drop off students.
Failure to stop for a school bus carries a $167 fine and three demerit points.
"We do believe that school bus safety is an extreme situation in some areas of our district," Warrington told the board Tuesday night.
Warrington said the district would raise the issue at the city's next traffic safety committee. She praised parent Gillian Burnett for bringing concerns about bus safety to a November school board meeting.
Burnett spoke about measures Nukko Lake Elementary School was taking to improve the situation along Chief Lake Road, including roadside signs and reflective backpack tags to students who ride the bus.
"Our rural area is heavily trafficked by logging trucks and there's a lot of traffic on that road," said Warrington, who chairs the education services committee.
Chief Lake Road is one of four areas that Diversified Transportation Ltd. - the company that provides the bus services to the district - has said is a traffic concern. The others are Highway 16 West in Beaverly, College Heights near Southridge Elementary School and Hill Avenue near D.P. Todd Secondary School.
More than a quarter of all School District 57 students use the buses, which travel 10,200 kilometres each day, said Warrington, who noted the problem extends to the city, where many students walk to and from school.
"Student safety on the road is critical," she said.
