Phil Plummer | The Ohio House of Representatives
Phil Plummer | The Ohio House of Representatives
State Representative Phil Plummer from Dayton expressed his support for the recently passed Ohio House version of the State Operating Budget. The budget includes an amendment spearheaded by Rep. Plummer, targeting crime reduction and safety improvement at downtown bus station hubs, with a focus on student safety.
Rep. Plummer stated, “Current policy has failed to solve this downtown bus hub problem, it is now time to act.” He emphasized that for safety reasons, "student transfers will no longer be permitted at the downtown RTA hub: just take the students home.”
The amendment mandates that in Ohio's eight largest counties, school districts must ensure student transfers on mass transit do not occur at central hubs. The legislation specifies, “Whenever a mass transit system regularly transports children to or from a school session, the mass transit system shall provide routes that ensure that such children either will not need to transfer between different buses or that the children will only need to make one transfer at a location that is not the central transfer hub for the mass transit system.”
The Amended Substitute House Bill 96 will now proceed to the Senate for further consideration.
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