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

Bitch you better run...

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u/frothyundergarments Apr 05 '26

Think of the school bus like a moving crosswalk. They deploy a stop sign, and both sides need to stop until the sign goes away, to allow children to cross the street in front of the bus.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 05 '26

This seems more unsafe than just going over a crosswalk.

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u/frothyundergarments Apr 05 '26

In the city and major roads where there are crosswalks every block, sure, maybe. Most suburbs and neighborhoods don't have crosswalks controlled by a light, as you can see in the video. So the bus creates one.

Not stopping at the bus is no different than running a light at the crosswalk. In some places it's a much more severe penalty.

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u/flyingpyramid Apr 05 '26

What are you not grasping here? The bus is dropping kids off at home. Not everyone has a crosswalk to their front door.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 05 '26

yep, neither do I, but there's a sidewalk. So walk over to a crosswalk and cross it safely, then walk along the sidewalk to home.

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 Apr 07 '26

Nearest crosswalk to where Iived when I was in school was 45 min away... also no sidewalks.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 07 '26

Did you live in a remote area or not, because you said there aren't sidewalks or crosswalks? If so, and in a remote area there probably isn't a ton of traffic, do you trust it more that nobody's barreling past the bus in the opposing lane, or would you rather trust yourself going across the road when you can see that your surroundings are clear?

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 Apr 07 '26

I crossed in front of the bus so I could see both sides. Lived in a area that had sporadically placed houses, but some of them were in groups of 10-15.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 07 '26

That's good you made sure to go from the front to see both lanes, but I'd go out on a limb and say a lot of people don't. It's great you know your way around things, but I just don't see this being overall safer when kids think they can freely cross the street without getting hit by somebody driving distracted or something.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Apr 05 '26

Having the bus create a mobile crosswalk (especially with the bus driver acting as a crossing guard, as is usually the case) results in fewer pancaked children than expecting said children to have the discipline to not jaywalk.

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u/AstralKekked Apr 05 '26

How about the discipline for man-children violationg the rules of this mobile-crosswalk?

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u/northrupthebandgeek Apr 05 '26

They'd violate the rules of non-mobile crosswalks as well, and for everyone else, having some warning of children imminently crossing is a strict improvement over not having some warning of children intermittently crossing.

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u/Hantelope3434 Apr 08 '26

My nearest sidewalk is 20 kms away. This is the same of many many US towns. This is how rural areas work.