Test Belts For 20,000 Buses

Transport Canada yesterday told the Commons transport committee it will conduct first-ever road tests on school bus seatbelts this year, in a Saskatchewan pilot project. Any new regulations mandating seatbelts would cost school boards up to $20,000 per vehicle refit, the equivalent of $400 million nationwide: “We know there is a cost.”

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