rec.autos.driving on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:51:33 GMT:
In general, I agree with this take. My opinion generally has been that school busses should not be stopping on any road that serves to facilitate interstate commerce. I never gave safety too much weight as the reason, it was more the MFFY notion of all that stopping and starting interfereing with interstate commerce (especially commerce that I am engaged in).
The Florida accident 3625P) Well, out here on the highway, 301 in Virginia, if the kids were to get to some off-highway pickup point...
All to often when cruising down 17, I have had to encounter a school bus that stops to disgorge its load at some subdivision or another. For some reason it can't turn in to the subdivision (nothing pyhsical preventing that), it has to stop on the highway and disrupt as many people as possible. IMNSHO, if the developer or home owners buttociation doesn't want school busses entering their prescious subdivision, they should be required to construct a cut out or bus stop area that is seperate from the highway so that the kids can be loaded-unloaded and traffic can continue to flow. Such a bus stop area might not be a bad idea for roads like the one where the accident that started this thread.
Then I have to ask what the parent's of these kids priority is: the kids safety or the parent's convienence?
That is what we do here... :)
