Idling in the bus lane outside of school hours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP has already said she’s changed her ways. She’s realized she was wrong
But some of you are just obtuse.
Magnet buses pick kids up at local
Schools and take them there. I live in Burtonsville and one of our magnet pick ups is the Praisner library so it’s not just schools.
OP gets there, it’s cold, her kid could be young and she doesnt want to just drive off and leave kid there. If the bus is late or doesn’t show her kid is left standing alone.
So she waits til the bus comes. This in itself is no huge crime. We all know kids walking uphill both ways to school in the snow with no shoes but what OP is doing is not abnormal.

Pointless. These parents have never done it and will never understand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP has already said she’s changed her ways. She’s realized she was wrong
But some of you are just obtuse.
Magnet buses pick kids up at local
Schools and take them there. I live in Burtonsville and one of our magnet pick ups is the Praisner library so it’s not just schools.
OP gets there, it’s cold, her kid could be young and she doesnt want to just drive off and leave kid there. If the bus is late or doesn’t show her kid is left standing alone.
So she waits til the bus comes. This in itself is no huge crime. We all know kids walking uphill both ways to school in the snow with no shoes but what OP is doing is not abnormal.

No, the bus lane part is abnormal. She presumably wouldn’t idle in a handicap spot at the library just because “well the library isn’t open yet and this spot is just for when the library is open”. When there were other spots 20’feet away. And when a handicapped person was honking at her. I mean… at least hopefully she wouldn’t, right?

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[Anonymous]

I’m sorry, did I miss the part where there was no parking lot available? People act like the things they do that inconvenience others are no big deal because they are convenient to them, but it’s really entitled!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kid goes to a magnet school and the bus timings from ES are at 7:15am - sign says not to park during hours 8:15 to 9:30 and 7:15 is not listed. Many of us parents idle in that lane and one bus usually just parks behind the last car or on the lane next to it and kids get in and go. A new bus driver on the second bus does not park in the usual spot at the back but flashes the light and parks too close to the last car making us move. If we move forward to the front of the line, he comes all the way to the front behind the last car and again flashes the full beam. Today at drop off after ES kids were gone (around 4pm) there were just 2 of us in that lane. The car in front of me did not move so I couldn't either when he came too close to me and I stayed put. After the kids got off he parked next to me, opened the bus door and said I had to move. I asked him how could I if the car in front of me did not move. He said I should not be idling in the bus lane. He did not bother to tell the other car driver.

By law, are we not allowed to idle in bus lane when the sign does not say it? Is he just being a DB? The other bus driver does not care and just parks in the lane next to the bus lane and goes on his way. We parents have been doing this for 2 years prior and this is the first time someone has been aggressive and flashing lights and coming too close to us.

Omg I can’t believe how entitled you sound right now. The bus driver is doing his job - he is 100% in the right. GTFO of the bus lane. I hope the local cop shows up to write you all a ticket.

But can you actually get a ticket if the sign mentions no parking between 8:15 and 9:30 and cars are idling at 7:15?

You are dense. You are in the wrong. Again it's a BUS lane.

[Anonymous]

Funny and ridiculous story. At the Poolesville magnet bus stop in Clarksburg, the lazy entitled parents filled the bus lane so much and refuse to move to the empty parking lot next to the school so much the bus driver gave up honking at them to move and dealing with late parents that block the bus from moving to avoid driving to Poolesville that he actually changed his location and started picking up on the street in front of the bus loop. Ridiculous!!! My fav is when a late parent actually parked there car in front of the bus on the street and had a standoff with the bus driver for not opening the door quick enough to let little miss entitled on the bus. Insanity.

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Anonymous wrote:unless you have a magnet kid who rides the bus, this is hard to understand. early in the morning, all parents dropping off kids wait in the bus lane.

I’m not understanding. Why are parents in the bus lane? Don’t you just drop your kid and go?

Early in the morning the school lot is empty so people just pull into the bus lane. No, most parents wait until bus shows and it gets cold in the morning

I still don’t get it. So parents are getting to school and sitting in the bus lane- with their kid in the car, and just waiting for the bus to pull up? Because why? Why wouldn’t your kid just get out when you get there and wait outside the school like a normal kid or go in if the doors are open.

And then what is happening after school? OP is again blocking the bus lane and sitting there waiting for her kid to get out of school? That’s weird. There’s a parking lot- it’s practically the same location. Or your kid can actually just ride the bus.

This is OP posting again after my last post saying I went to the parking lot the day it rained. The other responses were not from me.

In my case, my kid is in a magnet and we go to the ES before that school starts early in the morning to catch the bus. Whoever gets there early stays in the bus lane leaving space for the two buses that come and kids get on only at that spot. Any car that comes after goes to the parking lot and parks or idles.

Anyways, now I moved to the parking lot but the rest of the cars still stay in the bus lane. Their kids get out and walk back towards the bus on the sidewalk.