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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's completely a scam.
Trying getting a ticket across a six lane highway (WTH are kids gettign dropped off across the street on a six lane highway, right before the ONRAMP to I270 where there are literally NO HOMES) while it's snowing, and you're in lane 6 in the opposite direction.  Oh yes, so F'in EASY to see.  And $275 in fines.  Why is there a bus stop there at all? And it's SNOWING.  And I"m supposed to rotate my head back and forth constantly 180 degrees while driving, paying attention to what's happening six lanes over from me in the opposite direction where, in common sense, there should be no bus stop.

Then come to find out the revenue is going to the camera installer.
Infuriating.[/quote]

PP, if you can't see a big yellow school bus with flashing red lights and a strobe light on top, then you shouldn't be allowed to drive. You're endangering all of us.[/quote]

PP You are not from here. A big old tractor trailer can easily hide a school bus any day.  Who do you think can see the strobes on the top of the buses? Not small cars.

Cars in the Opposite direction from a school bus don't get any warning of the bus stopping. If you want drivers to be focused 6 lanes over staring at buses then you must want lots of rear end collisions.  That would be distracted driving to be focused in on something so remote to the road you are traveling on.

The poster on the ticket above perfectly illustrates one of the huge problems with this scheme.  In other jurisdictions, schools are prohibited from dropping children off on six lane roads.  Those jurisdictions know it is too dangerous, so they don't do it.  MCPS loves putting kids in danger, seeing them RUN across SIX lanes of traffic and then try to blame drivers for an inherently dangerous bus stop.  If MCPS is so worried about safety, then move the bus stop to a safe location like is done in other jurisdictions that care about student safety.  [/quote]

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