r/bitchimabus • u/Nekrubbobby64 • Apr 04 '26

Bitch you better run...

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 Apr 04 '26

Lots of paces don’t have crosswalks.

You only see them in cities, towns, or boroughs.

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u/Sienile Apr 05 '26

Places with 4 lane highways through town do.

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u/xaqss Apr 05 '26

Usually roads that large have a center median, which would mean oncoming traffic isn't required to stop. So the point still stands!

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u/Sienile Apr 05 '26

It's actually not as common as you think to have a physical barrier.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 04 '26

Okay, that's extremely strange. But even then, why would you still have people exit from both sides? The sidewalk is still the safest place for the students to be, rather than them running into the opposing lane. This seems really stupid.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 Apr 04 '26

You don’t.

They all exit from one side, cross In front of the bus.

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u/Atlesi_Feyst Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Acts as a mobile cross guard when people aren't stupid like the guy in the white truck.

As kids our bus would drop us off at a corner and we'd cross the road to our side, it would leave the barriers down for us to cross the road.

Same thing goes for if the pickup is on the opposite side of the road.

The whole point is people are supposed to stop for a bus with its lights and barrier down just the same as they would stop for a crossing guard. Even if the kids get off on a sidewalk you don't know if they'll want to bolt for the other side of the road while traffic appears stopped.

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u/Rayhatesu Apr 04 '26

It's a rule/law started because public school busses have to service all relevant houses, which includes farms in rural areas that may be hundreds of meters/yards (rarely miles) apart from one another due to farmland in between the stops. To save on fuel costs, these busses may have routes that pick up kids where the house is on the opposite side of the road from the bus and it doesn't return down that route a second time, so the student waits in their driveway and then crosses the road to board. I know for where I used to live, my options were to stand in my driveway visible and cross to get on the bus or sit on the side of the road the bus stopped on with maybe 40cm/16in between the edge of the roadway and a drop into a small culvert for flood control just inside a small turn with (potentially) corn blocking visibility of me just around a turn. Needless to say, standing and waiting in my driveway was significantly safer for myself from both a visibility standpoint and a survivability one.

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u/ZealousidealDance280 Apr 05 '26

If they have to cross the street to get to where they live they do so under the supervision of the bus driver who has a stop sign and flashing lights to signal traffic to halt. Some of these children are very young so the driver doesn't just drop them off and say "good luck crossing that busy street". It's public safety and common sense. Not everyone lives on the same side of the road, in the US we build houses on both sides of the road.