Wake school bus stop moved after 5 On Your Side shares safety concern

Natalie Lange said her son, Carson, had to cross Old Creedmoor Road to get to his bus in the morning.

"The traffic kind of goes by here pretty quickly," Lange said. "It was a bit nerve-wracking."

Traffic wouldn't necessarily slow down as the bus approached the stop, she said.

"We wouldn’t walk at all, even if it looked like they were slowing down," she said. "I’ve seen it happen before where they keep driving and they’re not paying attention."

In August, Lange requested that the stop be changed, citing safety concerns. But she never heard back.

So, she continued to stress safety with her son, including waiting for the bus driver to give him the thumbs up and for Lange to then give him the OK to cross the street.

Registering concern about Wake school bus stops is easy; getting one changed isn't so much

Many parents share Lange’s concerns because many bus stops require students to cross busy roads.

Unless a stop is listed as "doorside" on the Wake County Public School System schedule, students must cross the street.

Parents can request a bus stop change online, although a district spokesman said stops are "rarely changed."

"[They] said they were following up on the interview I did with WRAL, and they wanted to let me know that they were going to change the bus stop," she said.

Caron's stop is now doorside.

"I like that I don’t have to cross the street anymore," he said. "Now I know when to go."

"I was actually shocked," Lange said. "I didn’t expect it because I had talked to them a couple months before and was told they would look into it and get back to me, and I just never heard anything else."

District spokeswoman Lisa Luten said a request to change a stop "is more likely to get approved when it doesn’t negatively impact other students." It also has to meet legal requirements for a bus stop, she said.