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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also how do you appeal? No option on the ticket, of course[/quote]

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/howdoI/pay-schoolbus-ticket.html

But even better is avoiding a school bus citation in the first place by stopping for stopped school buses.[/quote]

That are coming from the opposite direction on a six lane road that you can’t see through a tractor trailer.

Get a grip. If you could stop the company wouldn’t have cooked up this scam to make millions.[/quote]

That's silly.  A tractor trailer is not going to exactly match a bus "and" you to perfectly obstruct your line of vision for any significant distance.

You are supposed to be scanning the road, ahead of you most of all, but all around.   We all know that buses are picking up kids in the morning and dropping them in the afternoon.   We should all be on alert for them, and for the fact they stop often.[/quote]

If you are driving watching 3 lanes over in the opposite direction through traffic you just hit the kid crossing in front of you. You clearly don’t drive in rush hour if you don’t know how a tractor trailer can block a bus. [/quote]

It's not a 6-lane road, traffic in rush hour is moving slowly, and if the tractor trailer is blocking the bus, then it's also blocking the bus camera.

However, you're right, that road is clearly unsafe, and the state should shut it down until they have fixed it.[/quote]

Clearly you don’t drive. The camera is running the entire time the bus is running. Yes, a truck can block a bus and a car next to the bus can later be videotaped.

What the camera never does is confirm that the bus complied with Maryland law in signaling its pending stop. [b]The bus cameras don’t comply with Maryland law because they are from Texas.[/b] [/quote]

You are spreading misinformation.

There is a circle in the top left corner of your bus ticket violation video. It shows exactly when the yellow lights are activated in relation to the stop and the traffic.   It then turns red when the bus activates its red lights and the stop arm on the bus.   Therefore, it is very clearly visible to the MULTIPLE video reviewers and the recipient of the ticket whether the school bus operator turned on the yellow lights before turning on the red lights.   And if the bus operator did not, then that video never results in a citation.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/visionzero/Resources/Files/2022_MontCo_School_Bus_Monitoring_System_Report.pdf

That’s not the law. Maryland law is that the yellow lights have to be activated 100 FEET before stopping. The Texas bus cameras do not measure distance. Just turning the yellow lights on doesn’t cut it.

The bus camera citations don’t comply with Maryland law and are a scam.

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The video shows whether the bus operator complied with the law. I don’t know how to be clearer that that. [/quote]

Really? Then why don’t you prove it. Where does the citation measure distance? 
It doesn’t.
Just turning the light “on” is not a distance. 100 feet is a measure of distance. The camera doesn’t measure distance. MD law is not followed.
Got it?[/quote]

You are wrong on the law that requires drivers to stop for stopped school buses.

A [u]separate[/u] law requires school bus drivers to flip on their yellow lights at least 100 feet before flipping on their red lights. If you want to pursue school bus drivers who don't comply with that separate law, then go for it, I guess? Since there's already a shortage of school bus drivers, it seems like an odd priority, but people do have odd priorities.[/quote]

LOL it’s not a separate law. It’s the law that applies to what bus drivers must do. You can’t be given a citation if the bus doesn’t give 100 foot warning.

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They are literally two separate laws. § 22–228 is about what school bus drivers have to do, with respect to their alternately flashing flights. § 21–706 is about what drivers have to do, when there is a bus with alternately flashing lights. You're just plain wrong on the facts here.[/quote]

You don’t know how laws work. Go ask your council member. They will explain it to you like they have already told everyone else who communicates with them on these citations.[/quote]

"Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"[/quote]

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