Safe school buses for the new semester
City police have finished inspecting all school buses ahead of the first day of the new semester.
At Yangpu Elementary School, Yangpu traffic police held a fire drill for the children on its campus on Thursday morning.
Fan Yubin, vice principal of the school, said such drills are often held for the children during a semester and that each of its eight school buses has a teacher in charge.
Nine schools in Yangpu District have about 1,100 pupils taking 32 buses, police said.
In Pudong, where there are 607 registered school buses serving 80 middle schools, primary schools and kindergartens, police have given a detailed inspection to each one of them before the new semester starts.
Pudong police also have announced a 10-day campaign starting on Friday to step up checks to school buses along their routes, especially looking out for offenses such as taking more pupils than allowed, speeding and not driving along approved routes.
