Crazy driver in HPP ignores school bus lights

[kalakoa]

What HPP really needs is its own schools.

Also a corner store, and a small venue of some sort. Stop pretending it's not a town.

[shockwave rider]

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Originally posted by kalakoa

What HPP really needs is its own schools.

Also a corner store, and a small venue of some sort. Stop pretending it's not a town.

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A corner store is a matter for private enterprise to deal with, but schools are public institutions paid for by the taxpayers of HPP, whose children deserve to go to school in their neighborhood, plus just think how much it would reduce traffic on the Highway.

[terracore]

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Originally posted by DTisme

TomK - I like the idea of the bus taking up both sides of the road for each stop. I've seen the do it, too. Probably against traffic laws, though.

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I see bus drivers flash their amber lights ALL THE TIME and then they never stop and then just later shut them off. Just because you're driving a bus doesn't mean you have instant vigilante carte blanche to manipulate traffic. Generally it doesn't bother me because "it's for the children" but the last thing I want is bus drivers getting the legal green light to drive in as many lanes as they want to. This can only lead to tragedy.

Let's leave law enforcement to the professionals and make our professional bus drivers follow the laws.

ETA: grammar

[TomK]

Terracore, please, no one has suggested school bus drivers "getting the legal green light to drive in as many lanes as they want to". Please read my post again, more carefully this time. As for leaving things to law enforcement, then unless you are proposing a police car follow every school bus, it's hardly a practical suggestion.

[Bullwinkle]

On the highway yesterday - over by the fabric store, I stopped in the right lane at the cross walk for a pedestrian in the median - looked like he had been there a while

Two vehicles and a school bus passed me on the left, could have been a fatality as well

in attention to pedestrians comes in many flavors, sometimes with deadly results

- I had a buddy in school that did a year for manslaughter - same scenario

[DTisme]

Awful. One second of a bad decision behind the wheel can haunt you for life. I guess we should all be grateful for how many times tragedy is averted. I know these stories will make me more attentive, that's for sure.

[leilanidude]

I see bus drivers flash their amber lights ALL THE TIME and then they never stop and then just later shut them off.
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Yes. that is because they know they have a stop up ahead and they do not know until they get close enough, whether the child is standing there or not.

[dmbwest]

I'm all for the SBD's to take charge of the road as they see fit from experience. Manipulate it all they want. "It's for the children."

Shaka everytime ...

Idiots should only pass them when they moving in lane BETWEEN stops.

[dmbwest]

Bullwinkle,

Thank you to stop, but please do not ...

With respect, I use that cross walk 8X a day and I can tell you there are plenty of 10 - 15 second gaps there to enable even the most slow moving person to cross the road .... There are a couple guys who use it all the time in chairs too ..

Anyone reading this ... I ask that you please DO NOT stop on the highway @ this crosswalk ... I can tell you from experience, it is going to cause MORE close calls and eventual accidents than not.

If / when I see a person slowing down, I always wave them on as I do not want to be the cause of an accident.

I don't care for me, but there should be a button / light if it's ever to be taken serious by drivers ...

aloha,
pog

[kalakoa]

I'm all for the SBD's to take charge of the road as they see fit from experience.

Especially if they also remember to share the road with cars -- in which case I'm more than happy to help out -- as an example, the busses do a "local thing" at the bottom of the Acres; I know how it goes, so leave them plenty of room, but others rush in and try to cause an accident...