Montgomery Co. school bus drivers among biggest rule-breakers for passing stopped school buses, repo

[Anonymous]

School bus drivers running red lights, speeding and passing other school buses with stop arm out.

Limarzi said what was alarming was that 85% of the citations issued for passing stopped school buses with their stop-arms extended were issued to other school bus drivers — 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/04/report-85-of-tickets-issued-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-were-issued-to-school-bus-drivers/

[Anonymous]

Are bus drivers paid overtime? Or are their wrists slapped for being late? I’m sure the system is set up so they feel they need to break the laws to get kids where they need to be. Everything mcps touches turns to garbage.

[Anonymous]

i watched a police officer drove around a parked bus that was actively unloading kids in a school parking lot. what the actual f was that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are bus drivers paid overtime? Or are their wrists slapped for being late? I’m sure the system is set up so they feel they need to break the laws to get kids where they need to be. Everything mcps touches turns to garbage.

I hate that this statement is a reality now

[Anonymous]

School buses tend to congregate together, and the stop signs/cameras operate even when there are no children in the road.

I once got a bus sign ticket because they put the sign out while I was in the middle of an intersection and I crossed the invisible line of ticket while coming to a stop next to a bus that had already loaded its single passenger.

[Anonymous]

That’s how Bus Patrol makes money.

[Anonymous]

They keep the money???

Yuck

[Anonymous]

Fascinating, FYI there’s a camera school bus that stops on River Road right after Little Falls that nails six lanes of moving cars every day at 3:15pm. And maybe at 8am too, who knows, never saw it.
And allows busses going in the opposite direction to not stop.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1128952.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i watched a police officer drove around a parked bus that was actively unloading kids in a school parking lot. what the actual f was that?

Pretty much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School bus drivers running red lights, speeding and passing other school buses with stop arm out.

Limarzi said what was alarming was that 85% of the citations issued for passing stopped school buses with their stop-arms extended were issued to other school bus drivers — 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/04/report-85-of-tickets-issued-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-were-issued-to-school-bus-drivers/

Noticed this misleading quote when I saw the report on the news. 85% of the citations for passing school buses ISSUED TO MCPS VEHICLES were by bus drivers. How many other MCPS positions use transportation provided by the school system. Of course bus drivers will have the most. I got one of these tickets myself and went to court to appeal it. There were 50 of us in the courtroom for the same type of ticket, just for that afternoon. There were 50 others that morning, and we all had gotten our tickets on the same day. And that's just the people who choose to go to court. (mine was dismissed after they played the video, as were several others).

I'm not saying, oh sure who cares if bus drivers drive unsafely but this really is a non-story. There's nothing in these stats that suggests bus drivers perform their job with any less skill or safety than anybody else who works or drives. And I have to think that since my own ticket was a mistake, probably some of those are too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School bus drivers running red lights, speeding and passing other school buses with stop arm out.

Limarzi said what was alarming was that 85% of the citations issued for passing stopped school buses with their stop-arms extended were issued to other school bus drivers — 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/04/report-85-of-tickets-issued-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-were-issued-to-school-bus-drivers/

Noticed this misleading quote when I saw the report on the news. 85% of the citations for passing school buses ISSUED TO MCPS VEHICLES were by bus drivers. How many other MCPS positions use transportation provided by the school system. Of course bus drivers will have the most. I got one of these tickets myself and went to court to appeal it. There were 50 of us in the courtroom for the same type of ticket, just for that afternoon. There were 50 others that morning, and we all had gotten our tickets on the same day. And that's just the people who choose to go to court. (mine was dismissed after they played the video, as were several others).

I'm not saying, oh sure who cares if bus drivers drive unsafely but this really is a non-story. There's nothing in these stats that suggests bus drivers perform their job with any less skill or safety than anybody else who works or drives. And I have to think that since my own ticket was a mistake, probably some of those are too.

Until a child gets run over by a MCPS school bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School bus drivers running red lights, speeding and passing other school buses with stop arm out.

Limarzi said what was alarming was that 85% of the citations issued for passing stopped school buses with their stop-arms extended were issued to other school bus drivers — 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/04/report-85-of-tickets-issued-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-were-issued-to-school-bus-drivers/

Noticed this misleading quote when I saw the report on the news. 85% of the citations for passing school buses ISSUED TO MCPS VEHICLES were by bus drivers. How many other MCPS positions use transportation provided by the school system. Of course bus drivers will have the most. I got one of these tickets myself and went to court to appeal it. There were 50 of us in the courtroom for the same type of ticket, just for that afternoon. There were 50 others that morning, and we all had gotten our tickets on the same day. And that's just the people who choose to go to court. (mine was dismissed after they played the video, as were several others).

I'm not saying, oh sure who cares if bus drivers drive unsafely but this really is a non-story. There's nothing in these stats that suggests bus drivers perform their job with any less skill or safety than anybody else who works or drives. And I have to think that since my own ticket was a mistake, probably some of those are too.

Until a child gets run over by a MCPS school bus.

This happened in 2019.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School bus drivers running red lights, speeding and passing other school buses with stop arm out.

Limarzi said what was alarming was that 85% of the citations issued for passing stopped school buses with their stop-arms extended were issued to other school bus drivers — 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/04/report-85-of-tickets-issued-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-were-issued-to-school-bus-drivers/

Noticed this misleading quote when I saw the report on the news. 85% of the citations for passing school buses ISSUED TO MCPS VEHICLES were by bus drivers. How many other MCPS positions use transportation provided by the school system. Of course bus drivers will have the most. I got one of these tickets myself and went to court to appeal it. There were 50 of us in the courtroom for the same type of ticket, just for that afternoon. There were 50 others that morning, and we all had gotten our tickets on the same day. And that's just the people who choose to go to court. (mine was dismissed after they played the video, as were several others).

I'm not saying, oh sure who cares if bus drivers drive unsafely but this really is a non-story. There's nothing in these stats that suggests bus drivers perform their job with any less skill or safety than anybody else who works or drives. And I have to think that since my own ticket was a mistake, probably some of those are too.

Until a child gets run over by a MCPS school bus.

This happened in 2019.

That child was hit by the bus she was riding, due to lack of supervision and clearance (no sidewalks!!) outside the bus at the stop.

https://moco360.media/2019/12/12/child-dies-after-being-struck-by-school-bus-in-bethesda/


In 2022 a car driver hit a kid while passing a stopped school bus.

https://mocoshow.com/blog/7-year-old-girl-seriously-injured-after-driver-fails-to-stop-for-school-bus/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s how Bus Patrol makes money.

And governments love it because fines are limited source of funds to raise from people who can't fight back, instead of taxing the rich more.

[Anonymous]

*unlimited source