A councillor in Langford, B.C., on Vancouver Island is expressing her concern about the recent B.C. time change.
British Columbia is adopting year-round daylight saving time, meaning that clocks went forward by one hour for the last time in early March.
However, Langford Coun. Kimberley Guiry said she is concerned about darker mornings as kids head to school.
From November to February, when kids are making their way to school around 8 a.m., it will be in the dark.
“We should be thinking about what it’s going to look like on rainy days like today when there’s high reflection on your windshield and how hard it is to see in some neighbourhoods that don’t have that infrastructure that protects pedestrians,” Guiry told Global News.
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She brought forward a motion to council on Monday for council “to direct staff to prepare a letter to the Minister of Education and Childcare, the Minister of Transportation and Transit, and the Premier’s Office, with a copy to all local governments in British Columbia, outlining Council’s concerns regarding the impacts of adopting year-round Pacific daylight time on children who would be required to walk to school in the dark. ”
Guiry said she would like to see the reopening of B.C.’s Active Transportation Infrastructure Grant Program, which provides safe routes to schools and establish a program to give students high-res vests and objects.
She would also like to see the expansion of The Society for Children and Youth of BC (SCY)’s Walking School Bus program.
B.C. Premier David Eby said on Wednesday that traffic safety will be increased and the province will monitor this to make sure it’s being done.
He also said that going to permanent daylight saving time helps the province avoid more negative health outcomes that come from changing the clocks, such as an increase in crashes.
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People who live in the central and northern parts of the provinces from BC to Ontario have lived with this all their lives have no complaints. They also have no darkness in June and July which they love
Typical lame brain thinking says let’s throw a fit or throw excessive taxpayer money at the problem. I haven’t seen anyone suggest the schools start class 30 – 45 minutes later.
isnt her 15 minutes of fame over yet?.
There’s always one group who wants special attention. How did you ever grow up and survive childhood without 24/7/365 light? HOW!! Now you want taxpayers of BC to do your parental job by paying for lights cuz your child cant walk in the dark. Good grief, the next generation is gonna be soft
JV- not my cup or tea. You do seems to have a prefannication with this topic though eh. I guess you spent too time ar the Rez with your “uncle’s” taking care of you,, eh eh. You what they say. One thing leads to the other.
Wow this is dumb. All kids in the north go to school in the dark. And in the cold.
Now Doug B can’t watch children as they walk to school in the morning anymore. He has to get night vision goggles
Fiuc off
And it’s never dark at 8am in the winter here?
You are only talking about an extra hour.
“ Kimberley” or Karen?
Tempest in a teacup!
90% wanted DST. It’s
The only thing the NDP
has granted the majority
Because light school mornings are so much safer. Tell that to Tumbler Ridge
LOL! More so called experts at nothing!
Everyone with children are upset at this unjustified move. Everyone who has to get up to go to work in the mornings is upset. The only people who are happy are the golfers and other ‘me-first’ people.
We asked Eby to get rid of daylight losing time. So he decided to go all in and keep it permanent. When will politicians start listening to the people?
In reality it will only be a couple of weeks around mid to late December when it will be dark but, of course, “ratchet up the drama”