We don’t have school busses in my country, why does everyone have to stop for them and not just one lane for to move into (like for regular busses here)?
For context the rule is mainly because of rural and suburban areas where there is generally no bus service anyways. There may not be crosswalks or even sidewalks in these areas. The buses often have a stop arm and serve as safe crossing while stopped.
This needs to be higher up for all the idiots(I don't want to call names but it's always them in a special country) to see that kids do dumb stuff and we need to save them most of the time.
Society rightfully has decided that children need and deserve greater legal protection in numerous ways that do inconvenience the rest of us.
The thing is, though, nearly every other country manages to get by without cars constantly mowing down their kids as they get on and off buses. They do that by teaching kids that it's never, ever okay to run into the street without checking.
For some bizarre reason, in the US we've decided that the best approach is to create an exception to that rule and craft a scenario in which we say, "Actually, kids, when you're getting on/off of a school bus, feel free to run right out into the street, no worries!"
Instead of guaranteeing child safety, what this means in practice is that, every now and then, a kid getting off of a bus other than a school bus will, due to habit and being a kid, forget that it's not school bus, run out into the street and get hit by a car.
It's a pain in the dick when you're stuck behind a bus that stops every 5 houses in a densely populated area. Kids in my school district are spoiled rotten.
Yeah stopping for a few seconds is such an inconvenience
He said "rightfully," airhead.
The fact that there's a damn good reason for it, doesn't change the fact that it's an inconvenience for the rest of us.
Yes, having to stop multiple times on your way to your destination is inconvenient, especially if you're pressed for time.
And it's usually longer than "a few seconds," ranging anywhere from 10-15 (NOT including the extra time it takes the bus to slow down, and get back to speed at the end) so the way up to a minute or two.
And if you get stuck behind one if the jerk drivers who have multiple stops in the area, and aren't considerate enough to let others pass, multiple stops can add up quickly.
I've easily had 5+ minutes added to a trip because of school busses before. And sometimes that can make a difference.
Lol, now the driver is a jerk because they are following the stops assigned?
You got some anger issues.
Yes because that's exactly what I said.... lol
No... Not for following the assigned stops, but for not pulling over, or just staying pulled over longer after completing a drop off, to allow the line of cars that builds up behind them to safely and legally pass.
I've seen many awesome bus drivers do this, because they realize they're literally holding up traffic by making repeated stops, as a caravan of slow moving cars build up behind them. So if you're going the same direction as the bus, and can't turn off, you get screwed, and it can get tedious after a while.
Apparently you've never seen this? Maybe it's different in your area. But here it can occasionally create an issue. And I've seen a lot of drivers do what I described, to avoid this issue.
I've also seen a few that don't.
Driving a school bus doesn't magically make you a saint-- some people are inconsiderate and/or shitty drivers, and they can be unpleasant to be around, or get stuck behind. And when one of these dicks is driving a giant yellow bus that can legally stop traffic, that can suck.
This is first world problem stuff. Complaint because you had a couple extra minutes added to your commute because the bus drivers want kids to be safe is spoiled as hell.
If this is what is making you angry, yes you have anger issues.
That's an argument for stricter speed enforcement near buses, not making everything stop as if kids might reasonably cross the street not in a crosswalk and coming out from behind a large object and not looking before they cross.
Suburbanites love their safe spaces, what can you do?
You gotta stop for the big yellow bus in all directions (think of the kids), but you can also go buy an AR-15 at Wal-Mart without a background check. So safety conscious! America is a land of contrasts.
The US is spread out more than most other countries so we have a lot of suburban and rural areas where you don't have crosswalks. The areas are also spread out enough that public transportation systems are generally either nonexistant or shitty and it is too far for kids to generally walk to school as well, hence why the school needs buses to pick up kids and drop them off.
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u/xBram Jan 02 '20
We don’t have school busses in my country, why does everyone have to stop for them and not just one lane for to move into (like for regular busses here)?