Got a $250 school bus ticket in MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No sympathy, OP

This Pay the $250 and be thankful you didn’t kill a child.

[Anonymous]

Question because I don't know the answer....are you supposed to stop where there is a median, but there are breaks in the median? (I think no, but am not sure.) It's sometimes a little scary to stop on a road with 2-3 lanes in each direction, and a 40 mph speed limit--I hate when they have bus stops on streets like that. MCPS avoids it, but some of the private school buses stop on pretty busy streets, I've noticed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question because I don't know the answer....are you supposed to stop where there is a median, but there are breaks in the median? (I think no, but am not sure.) It's sometimes a little scary to stop on a road with 2-3 lanes in each direction, and a 40 mph speed limit--I hate when they have bus stops on streets like that. MCPS avoids it, but some of the private school buses stop on pretty busy streets, I've noticed.

When in doubt, stop. Wouldn't you rather stop even though you weren't required to, than not stop when you were required to?

[Anonymous]

Yeah OP, I looked up the laws here and realized if there isn't a divider even on one portion of a four lane road and you don't stop for a bus, you get a ticket.

Realized that other places I have lived either (1) have the four lane roads divided by a median of some sort, or (2) the buses stop freaking let kids off on four lane roads that don't. Not the case here.

[Anonymous]

To clarify, if the US stops near the portion that doesn't have a median. Blew my mind.

[Anonymous]

I’ll bet OP voted for the person(s) who approved guilt by photo in MC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll bet OP voted for the person(s) who approved guilt by photo in MC.

Here's one simple trick for not getting a $250 ticket for passing a stopped school bus: stop for stopped school buses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is this new? I’ve lived here 25 years and this was the first time. I was on a 4 lane highway on the left most lane and the school bus was dropping off at some apartments on the right most lane. I didn’t even see it. It’s not like I was in some residential neighborhood.

You didn't see a 40-foot long yellow bus with retroreflective tape on the back, a strobe light on top, flashing yellow and red lights, and a stop sign on an arm?

Please stop driving right now.

It’s very possible that the OP did not see the bus. If there are 6 or 8 lanes of traffic. And there are several large trucks next to you, you cannot see the bus on the extreme opposite site of the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this new? I’ve lived here 25 years and this was the first time. I was on a 4 lane highway on the left most lane and the school bus was dropping off at some apartments on the right most lane. I didn’t even see it. It’s not like I was in some residential neighborhood.

You didn't see a 40-foot long yellow bus with retroreflective tape on the back, a strobe light on top, flashing yellow and red lights, and a stop sign on an arm?

Please stop driving right now.

It’s very possible that the OP did not see the bus. If there are 6 or 8 lanes of traffic. And there are several large trucks next to you, you cannot see the bus on the extreme opposite site of the road.

So those truck-drivers also didn't see the school bus and also didn't stop for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this new? I’ve lived here 25 years and this was the first time. I was on a 4 lane highway on the left most lane and the school bus was dropping off at some apartments on the right most lane. I didn’t even see it. It’s not like I was in some residential neighborhood.

You didn't see a 40-foot long yellow bus with retroreflective tape on the back, a strobe light on top, flashing yellow and red lights, and a stop sign on an arm?

Please stop driving right now.

It’s very possible that the OP did not see the bus. If there are 6 or 8 lanes of traffic. And there are several large trucks next to you, you cannot see the bus on the extreme opposite site of the road.

So those truck-drivers also didn't see the school bus and also didn't stop for it?

If there were trucks between OP and the bus, how would a bus-mounted camera get a picture of OP's car? Obviously there was a clear line of sight from OP's license plate to the bus's stop sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this new? I’ve lived here 25 years and this was the first time. I was on a 4 lane highway on the left most lane and the school bus was dropping off at some apartments on the right most lane. I didn’t even see it. It’s not like I was in some residential neighborhood.

You didn't see a 40-foot long yellow bus with retroreflective tape on the back, a strobe light on top, flashing yellow and red lights, and a stop sign on an arm?

Please stop driving right now.

It’s very possible that the OP did not see the bus. If there are 6 or 8 lanes of traffic. And there are several large trucks next to you, you cannot see the bus on the extreme opposite site of the road.

So those truck-drivers also didn't see the school bus and also didn't stop for it?

And the camera was able to catch Op right through those trucks.

[Anonymous]

This just happened to me too. 400 days no school gave them time to put cameras on all the buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there is no median you have to stop...

I got one in Kensington despite being on the other side of a median with a CREEK running through the middle of it.

[Anonymous]

You don't have to stop on a divided highway otherwise both lanes of travel stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this new? I’ve lived here 25 years and this was the first time. I was on a 4 lane highway on the left most lane and the school bus was dropping off at some apartments on the right most lane. I didn’t even see it. It’s not like I was in some residential neighborhood.

You didn't see a 40-foot long yellow bus with retroreflective tape on the back, a strobe light on top, flashing yellow and red lights, and a stop sign on an arm?

Please stop driving right now.

This.

Maybe the apartments were so distressing that she had hysterical blindness.