Got a $250 school bus ticket in MoCo

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

A bus stop on a highway? Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Was the bus facing the same direction as you?

[Anonymous]

If there is no median you have to stop...

[Anonymous]

The road, not a highway didnt have an established median. You are required to stop.

School buses don't stop on highways around here. It probably had highway in the name like EW highway.

[Anonymous]

Are you seriously asking if it’s new? Have you never seen the stop sign attached to school buses?

[Anonymous]

No sympathy, OP

[Anonymous]

It is illegal to pass a school bus. If it is stopped, you are supposed to stop.

[Anonymous]

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.

Apartments = residential neighborhood

[Anonymous]

I got one too, I passed in the farthest lane as the bus put up its stop sign. Insane. I contested it and it was dismissed (via mail, didn't have to go to court or anything).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got one too, I passed in the farthest lane as the bus put up its stop sign. Insane. I contested it and it was dismissed (via mail, didn't have to go to court or anything).

What did you say to contest it?

[Anonymous]

The law obviously isn't new but I think they've gotten more of the cameras. We got one a couple years ago right as the bus was putting out its sign, but we paid it.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sounds like you saw it since you knw exactly where it was...

[Anonymous]

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

This. Also, OP you don't know what a highway is.

But I'm shocked... SHOCKED that a Maryland driver doesn't know how to drive and/or stop. I've always said that Maryland driving tests essentially come down to asking applicants to circle the photograph that most resembles a highway, and you have a picture of a residential road alongside a picture of a potato. As long as you don't circle the potato, you get a license in MD. Hence, OP.

[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.

Apartments = residential neighborhood

but we're allowed to rundown apartment dwellers, right?