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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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 —[b] 330 of the 386 stop-arm camera violations were by bus drivers.[/b]

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

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. [/quote]

Until a child gets run over by a MCPS school bus.[/quote]

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