No lighting, unpaved, wild animals, and speeding cars on a sharp turn.

According to parents in a rural community near Rawdon, N.S., those conditions make a new bus stop location unsuitable and dangerous.

“It’s the most dangerous turn on our road. It’s almost a 90-degree turn. In the wintertime, we’ve seen multiple cars go off this road,” said parent Mieke Eisenhauer.

“There’s no lighting on this road. There’s no sidewalks. It’s a dirt road and people fly (through), and there’s wild animals.”

The bus stop they’ve used for many years has been removed and placed several kilometres away — on a sharp corner of a secluded dirt road.

The parents say they were caught off guard by the route change and received little notice.

Neighbours in the area are apparently also expressing their disconte

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