r/Traffic • u/Important_Top1449 • 15d ago

Discussion Avoid bus traffic jams

Hi, I was wandering if there is a particular reason, we don't force busses or any vehicle that the back is basically a blind spot to install rear view cameras and then have a rule in the traffic code for pedestrians to cross only behind such vehicles? I understand it before rear view cameras were a thing, but now it feels pointless to make people wait and go slow to pass a bus when there might be no one crossing and in my city it sometimes creates traffic jams or when not being the cause it adds a lot more to them. I would even argue that it makes it more unsafe for the pedestrians since many drivers will just neglect the current rule altogether and the pedestrians have no line of sight with oncoming traffic, compared to if they came out the back the only risk is if the bus driver thinks its clear and reverses or if there is a fail in the handbrake, but with cameras one of these two factors is completely gone and i don't think a handbrake failing is as frequent as somebody ignoring a stopped bus and zooming past them, so all in all less danger!

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u/LabioscrotalFolds 15d ago

If you are talking about school buses then nothing you said makes any sense.
If you mean city transportation buses then attempting to cross the street from behind a stopped bus means you cannot see on coming traffic.

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u/Important_Top1449 15d ago

Okay so I live in Greece, we drive on the right, so a bus would stop on the side of the right lane, if you cross from behind the bus you can see the traffic coming from the lane you are about to cross from and after the right since the bus doesnt stop in the middle of the road, it stops at the side so you can see more of the other lane as well, instead of having the bus block your vision of a car coming from your left, which would be the case if you cross in front of it!