HB 994-1330 - Delegate Holly Seibold. These bill needs to implement the "Extension of the School Zone" so school bus routes that share the roads with speeding tractor trailers, cars and motorcycles and many other forms of speeding vehicles such as on Route 17 that turned into a yearly growing per VDOT data of millions of vehicles into super country highway. It was NEVER designed to handle this much traffic per State and Sheriff Police that patrol Route 17 roads. It needs the expansion use of speed ticket cameras on Route 17 and other roads like it where the school buses STOP to pick up and drop off children. School zones are allowed for use of speed ticket cameras, and that essentially applies to the MOST dangerous locations also where a school bus must STOP on busy speeding roads. It actually is the MORE dangerous area that children are at MOST HIGHEST RISK at of being KILLED by another speeding vehicle such as a tractor trailer which Route 17 is one of their most favorite routes to deliver cargo from the ports of Virginia to the Inland Marine Ports in Front Royal Virginia because it is least enforced by police because Warrenton VDOT Engineer Daniel (Mark) Nesbit has failed PRIMARILY to provide the police with the proper widened road shoulders despite citizens asking VDOT for this since 2004. Only x2 were added and that took VDOT 18 years to do it from the 2004 and many other years requests for that. Speed Ticket Cameras DO NOT need widened shoulders to issue a citation and VDOT does NOT want to comply and also DOES NOT support speed ticket camera use per multiple VDOT employees at public meetings telling me this. The school bus route is a EXTENSION of the School Zone and citation hours would be when children are on the buses in route to and from home for school Monday thru Friday which means operating citations would be issued from 6am to 9am roughly and 2pm to 5pm roughly. Never on a Sat, Sun or Summer School Closure days so whats the big deal why this SENSIBLE SOLUTION FROM citizens and me for the past 3 years to our Senators and Delegates is NOT being DONE? The answer is because there most likely per my strongest opinion is speed ticket cameras would affect the tractor trailers to also then OBEY the speed limit and if anyone needs to do that is those drivers who are hauling serious explosive chemicals and other cargo that can explode, leak out and kill people or leach into water wells. This is a SERIOUS TOPIC, but Delegates are clearly NOT wanting to address it so we are writing again to have it put into a bill for 2026 session. The ports of Virginia clearly are making millions of dollars per past Transportation Secretary Sheppard Miller recorded 2023 and 2024 statements and he said highway road deaths continue to rise yearly. The sensible solution is speed ticket cameras to assist police, but that would mean cargo is NOT delivered FASTER thru speeding over the speed limit is speed ticket cameras are in place. Its a GREED BLEED. Ports of Virginia and truckers GREED and the citizens BLEED in the ongoing vehicle road crashes due to speeding. Do you NOT want to make it into heaven when you DIE because you cant take the money with you when you die, but all your actions in life will be judged by GOD whether you are let into heaven or NOT. Do the RIGHT THING to implement Extension of school zone. GOD Will LOVE you. Satan & demons will LOVE you for the Greed Bleed and NOT expanding to protect the school buses more.

Speed Ticket Cameras are clearly being suppressed to school and work zones in recent RGA session processes, or completely blocked from moving forward when they are the sensible data driven results now since 2024 being used in the school and work zones. Our Democrat Delegates really need to implement the current photo speed ticket camera enforcement bills to be applied as a "EXTENSION OF THE SCHOOL ZONE" for roads like Route 17 in Fauquier County and many other main roads that the school buses have to drop and pick up children on speeding high volume vehicle cars and tractor trailers. The problem is many adult and children citizens are suffering and dying in many more vehicle crashes than it has to be on Virginia Roadways, and it is all due to speed ticket cameras being suppressed so they DO NOT IMPACT the mass amount of high volume speeding being done by tractor trailers to deliver CARGO FASTER for the ports of Virginia per my strongest opinion and research I have been shown. The ports of Virginia are in competition to attract the biggest cargo ships and develop customer relations by demonstrating they can deliver the cargo FASTER to unload the ships FASTER thru speeding of tractor trailers that is a competition edge over the other Ports of Baltimore, Miami, New Jersey and New York. If the ports of Virginia were NOT present then the speed ticket cameras would have been implemented many years ago because of how much revenue they generated due to SO MUCH speeding the police forces cannot handle or get under control. In Fauquier County on Route 17 the data shows the police forces on average do NOT issue a speed citation in a 55mph zone until 74mph which is 1 mile under 75 mph that is by law reckless driving. and is 19 mph OVER the speed limit. The Speed Ticket camera sends a citation at 11mph over the speed limit. Balance is clearly needed, and STOP the neglect towards citizens road public safety lives that is taking place for years at the RGA political level. Republican Trend is clearly votes NO for speed ticket cameras and ANY Bills that would cause road calming of speeding that equates to than affecting the tractor trailers NOT to be able to SPEED as Much. This of course then affects all other vehicles to be allowed to SPEED and add to the deaths and injuries. This is serious LIFE and DEATH Bills. Democrats TREND for years was to support speed ticket camera bills until 2024 thru 2026 even with a Democrat Majority control in all x3 houses (Trifecta) which took away the blocking power of speed ticket cameras from Republicans, but the Democrats voting TREND also shifted to stalling, blocking and suppressing speed ticket cameras NOT to make it out on the main busy worst roads where they are needed the most. This again is allowing DEATH and INJURY in rising yearly data to continue all so the ports of Virginia can make MORE money for the investors involved and other affiliated interests for putting PROFITS over the Peoples road public safety interests. The police clearly need this technology assistance. Please for the LOVE OF GOD in some way, shape or form start in this 2026 session by expanding the speed ticket cameras as a EXTENSION OF THE SCHOOL ZONE where School Bus Routes occur when school is in session Monday thru Friday during the school bus route use. Closed for the summer months which means cameras NOT engaged. What level of investigation is it going to take to break this GREED BLEED.