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School’s back, so slow it down
WV installs optical illusion to slow drivers Benjamin Alldritt balldritt@nsnews.com
WITH hordes of young people headed back to school next week, police and traffic safety groups will be using a variety of methods — old and new — to remind drivers to slow down in school zones. The District of West Vancouver will be installing a 3-D optical illusion on 22nd Street that looks like a young girl running into the street. Northbound drivers near Ecole Pauline Johnson will first see a sign that reads You’re Probably Not Expecting Kids to Run Out on the Road, followed by a 3-D image of a child chasing a ball into the street. The image of the girl is visible from about 30 metres away, giving motorists enough space to stop if they are obeying the speed limit. The girl appears to recede into the pavement as drivers pass by. The illusion, the first of its kind in Canada, will be in place for one week. The $15,000-trial is a partnership between the district and safety advocacy groups NEWS photo Terry Peters Preventable and the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation. SGT. Darrin Ramey, head of the North Vancouver RCMP detachment’s traffic section, is warning all drivers that police will be stepping up North Vancouver RCMP enforcement in and around school zones in the next couple of weeks. officers will also be taking speeders to school. detachment will be devoting six of its members “We’re going to be educating them through to enforcing the speed limit around schools. their pocketbooks,” said Sgt. Darrin Ramey, head In addition to brightly clad uniformed officers of the detachment’s traffic section. on motorcycles, unmarked vehicles and civilian A psychiatrist working in North “It is a very important time of year. It’s when volunteers will also be patrolling for speeders. of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. our most vulnerable people, our children, are Lim is eligible to get back to work in May of “Driving is one of the most dangerous things Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital headed back on the streets in droves and for many you can do on a regular basis. You have to take has been suspended from working 2012 if he completes a counselling course and of them, it may be the first time that they are out it seriously and we are the people mandated to for two years after he admitted to an interview and the college reviews his plans to return to practice. walking in traffic. We’re going to be a very visible make you take it seriously,” Ramey said. “It’s not “We will look at all aspects,” said college presence for the first couple of weeks of school to something you can ease into. One day there are sleeping with one of his patients. Dr. Peter Sung-Ho Lim, 43, confessed that spokeswoman Susan Prins, “usually related to remind the driving public that school season is very few kids around, the next day there are going on and the speed limit is 30 kilometres per hour to be thousands. It’s not like you can slow down he had “a personal and sexual relationship” boundary violations to make sure there is a with a patient. He also sent text messages of an full understanding of what it means to cross a unless otherwise indicated.” tomorrow. You’re going to slow down today.” “inappropriate and personal nature” to another boundary in a patient-physician setting.” Every police officer is involved with traffic See Fall page 10 patient, according to a release from the College — Benjamin Alldritt enforcement,saidRamey,buttheNorthVancouver
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