MCPS has been told to review bus stops and move them to safe locations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Are you talking about the death of an elementary schooler a couple of years ago, who had been let out at her bus stop near her home, and the bus ran over her? Or God forbid, has there been another death?!

Yes because the BOE doesn’t care.

The BOE needs to be held accountable for automotive-related fatalities!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Are you talking about the death of an elementary schooler a couple of years ago, who had been let out at her bus stop near her home, and the bus ran over her? Or God forbid, has there been another death?!

Yes because the BOE doesn’t care.

NP.. that one had nothing to do with the safety of the bus stop area.

When the BOE doesn’t do their job children are injured or die. They are responsible.

Again, that incident had nothing to do with the safety or lackthereof of that specific bus stop.

You are not helping. You are actually diverting attention to the real issues.

My heart aches for that family.

You are an idiot and know nothing about bus stop safety. BOE member?

OK, if you are so smart. How did the placement of the bus stop for that incident cause that terrible tragedy?

[Anonymous]

We don't have a lot of sidewalks in our neighborhood so they absolutely should review it.

[Anonymous]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/ashburton-elementary-student-has-died-after-being-struck-at-school-bus-stop/

The bus stop is on the corner of Grosvenor Ln and King Charles Way- the entrance to a townhome community. Such a horrible tragedy, but in this instance was caused by a reckless driving jumping the curb, driving over a plant bed, and hitting the family, not from the bus stop being located on a busy or dangerous intersection.

[Anonymous]

Changing bus stop placement isn't the solution. We're on a busy street and short of having our kids walk a long distance on that busy street to some other location (which isn't actually safer!) there's no way to move their bus stops somewhere safer.

The solution is actually enforcing traffic laws - having speed cameras and stationed police cars near schools and bus stops on a regular basis. They could also install better crosswalks - with lights to stop the traffic if needed. We've been in our house for 20yrs and there has never been an effort to enforce the speed limit or ensure safe crossing (and we're 2 blocks from an elementary school.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't have a lot of sidewalks in our neighborhood so they absolutely should review it.

Some of the incidents occurred where there are sidewalks.

ITA with the other poster -- it's about traffic laws. But, there are hundreds of bus stops routes. We don't have police to monitor every bus stop.

In the most recent tragic case, it wasn't about speeding, however. The driver, for whatever reason, jumped the curb. Unless you put the bus stop where there are no other cars allowed, or a concrete barrier between the street and the bus stop, even having cops there would not have prevented this tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery county is the first place I have ever loved that let's kids out of buses on sidewalks on 4+ lane roads, without pulling into a neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Is King Charles Way a busy road or is that the side street?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Are you talking about the death of an elementary schooler a couple of years ago, who had been let out at her bus stop near her home, and the bus ran over her? Or God forbid, has there been another death?!

A 7 year old who went to Ashburton ES was killed when a car struck him after it “left the roadway.” The child’s death was just announced.

Oh that is just terrible to hear. Ugh. So so sorry for that family.

[Anonymous]

MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

Bus stop supervision is on the parents. MCPS cannot be blamed for this. And, there was a parent supervising this child. It was a horrible tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

Bus stop supervision is on the parents. MCPS cannot be blamed for this. And, there was a parent supervising this child. It was a horrible tragedy.

It sounds like someone lost control of their vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk. This is tragic, but I'm not sure it's the Board of Education's fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is King Charles Way a busy road or is that the side street?

King Charles is more of a driveway - exit of a townhome community. This was a freak accident. It's terribly tragic, but it doesn't seem like moving the bus stop would have made a difference this time.

[Anonymous]

It was an elderly driver. Bad vision? Mixing up the gas and the brake? This is not on MCPS. The stop was not on a main road and anybody can jump a curb.

This is on our incredibly lax driver licensing system which hands licenses to young people with minimal practice and a joke of a driving exam and then lets them keep that license in perpetuity with basically no checks on when they become too visually or cognitively impaired to still be a safe driver. It is SO much harder to qualify for a license in much of Europe and you can lose it or get it suspended much more easily. In Germany they actually have something called the MPU or "Idiotentest" which is basically a medical/psychological evaluation a person has to undertake at their own expense after a qualifying incident to prove that they are not too stupid to be allowed to drive. A lot of people fail it. We need that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They didn’t do it and now a child has died from the Boad of Education’s negligence.

Who "told" mcps to review bus stops?