{"id":535163,"date":"2025-10-29T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535163\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:46:24","slug":"bus-brakes-to-get-added-safety-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535163\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Brakes to Get Added Safety Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Provided by Prince William County Schools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/princewilliamliving.com\/2017\/05\/bus-brakes-to-get-added-safety-feature\/463-bus-brakes-safety-feature\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49655 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49655 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/463-Bus-Brakes-Safety-Feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"184\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">PWCS will join school divisions across Virginia in getting newer buses retrofitted with an added interlock device to prevent parking brakes from disengaging accidentally. <a class=\"a_ext_link\" title=\"VDOE video on school bus compliance.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAivydd7HTU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">PWCS buses are safe without the feature<\/a>, but the upgrade will add an extra layer of protection. Pre-2011 models will continue to operate without the interlock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Virginia education officials say approximately 4,000 buses statewide need to be upgraded at manufacturer expense to meet the latest state specifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Upgrades to the majority PWCS fleet will begin shortly and continue throughout the summer. The work will not affect service to students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided by Prince William County Schools PWCS will join school divisions across Virginia in getting newer buses retrofitted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,14985,7714,7713,533,172987,2832,532,172988,2831,7710,519,172989,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-535163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-buses","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-new-brakes","14":"tag-prince-of-wales","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-prince-william-county-schools","17":"tag-princess-of-wales","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-school-buses","21":"tag-uk-royal-family","22":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115456822261700543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}