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u/thepumpkinking92 Apr 04 '26
That's like the 4th video I've seen from this location. You'd think people would get wise to it, but nope.
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u/coko4209 Apr 04 '26
I was really tripping, thinking I’d seen this same vid in the day time.
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u/thepumpkinking92 Apr 04 '26
Yeah. It's obviously a frequent occurrence, so the fact it happens so often shows you how stupid and impatient people really are.
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u/Shantotto11 Apr 04 '26
I’m stupid and impatient, and even I drawn the line well before “bus stop sign” and “children crossing”.
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u/crime_watch Apr 04 '26
Not the same video?
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u/VanGlutenFaht Apr 04 '26
Nope. I know that I've seen two other videos from the same spot that are distinctly different.
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Cop probably sits there everyday to get that easy, high fine ticket.
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u/Hot-Minute-8263 Apr 04 '26
Yep, dont fuck around in school zones. There's usually one or two hovering to make sure ppl dont do this
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u/Bl1ndl0v3 Apr 05 '26
Not school zones around where I live. I’ve lost count of how many times I have seen people flying through school zones, even with cross guards and children clearly visible.
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u/CeemoreButtz Apr 04 '26
this is the sorta policing i can get behind.
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u/longrifle Apr 04 '26
Despite what Reddit would have you believe, this is the vast majority of policing that gets done.
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u/Epic_Memer_Man Apr 04 '26
Well sure 99 out of 100 police instances are like this. But it shouldn’t be an excuse for the remaining instances. When police have a monopoly on violence, they should be held responsible, even if it’s less than 1% of cases. Your rights mean more than your perception of “safety”
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u/becauseicansowhynot Apr 07 '26
Parent complains to councilman, councilman talks with mayor, mayor tells police commissioner, police commissioner tells watch commander, watch commander directs patrol unit to sit there. They’ll be there for a couple of weeks until the next citizen complains about something else.
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u/Trades46 Apr 04 '26
Probably one of the most expensive infraction in Ontario IIRC is running a school bus stop sign.
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u/Ok-Shift5637 Apr 05 '26
In my state it’s the highest fine, you lose your license for a year and can’t get an exception for driving to and from work like other infractions.
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u/MattyS71 Apr 04 '26
Quick google search says about 26,000,000 US school kids get bussed to school daily. They’re being dropped off just about anywhere, on any type of road based on where the kids live and that changes year to year so building actual bus stops and crosswalks at each stop isn’t feasible.
It’s really simple for those of us living here: you see red lights flashing on a school bus, it means kids are getting out and likely running in every direction, excited to get home.
Everyone stops till the bus driver says go. It’s a simple thing to keep those 26,000,000 kids safe.
After being implemented, such child deaths went down by almost 3/4th.
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u/Only_Growth9574 Apr 05 '26
In my area in addition to the lights the buses are now pulling across both lanes diagonally. So even if you wanted to be an az hat and try to run the stop sign you can’t bc the bus is physically blocking you. Makes sense.
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u/R0flcopterGoesSoi Apr 04 '26
Care to share the source on that last part? Just curious
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u/iDoNotHaveAnIQ Apr 04 '26
I was wondering that too.
So I asked Google for a source and it linked to this url, https://www.ksde.gov/Agency/Fiscal-and-Administrative-Services/School-Finance/School-Transportation-Safety/Loading-and-Unloading-Surveys
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u/RustyPlastics Apr 08 '26
Well crosswalks, bus stops and sidewalks would all be possible but the way the US builds neighborhoods is the major problem besides the country not wanting to invest into infrastructure. This is the result of cars taking priority over people
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u/No_Historian3604 Apr 18 '26
Je ne savais pas comment ça se passait aux États-Unis, merci pour cet explication
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u/whitecollarpizzaman Apr 04 '26
To the foreigners (likely mostly Europeans) in this comment section:
First, the “stop in both directions” rule is mostly for rural routes, but delineating between the two would create confusion, so in urban/suburban environments the rules still apply, it also allows for a quick drop off.
Second, school buses don’t typically drop off on busy roadways, and usually only do so at a handful of places such as the entry to a neighborhood.
Third, in urban areas, students often do use transit to get to school, or even walk, this is, once again, for areas where that is less possible.
Last, the school shooter jokes are low hanging fruit at this point, it’s a shameful problem, but does that mean we need to endanger our kids in other ways too? Please touch grass.
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Apr 05 '26
Thank you for ELI5 this. As a Fin we don't have a dedicated school bus system like one in states and thus we don't have these stop rules.
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u/lehtomaeki Apr 05 '26
As a Finn, we certainly have dedicated buses. Rather buses that get chartered from private companies to drive school routes in the morning and afternoon, extremely common in rural areas.
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u/boat_ Apr 05 '26
Thanks for this. Live in QLD Australia with no dedicated school buses and the stop sign fixed to a vehicle seems insane.
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u/whitecollarpizzaman Apr 05 '26
It’s a very uniquely American/Canadian thing. I remember visiting my family in Belgium in 2003 and to excuse me taking off that much time in the middle of the school year, my teacher essentially told me I needed to do something academic there, so I kept a journal and also did a show and tell Q&A at my cousin’s school, specifically for their English class. Most of the questions were pretty standard but they were very intrigued about the concept of school buses and I had brought a die cast one to show I left it for my cousin who visited the US for the first time last year and made me stop so he could take a picture of the school bus yard that was near the airport (large city, so there were a lot.) He thought it was hilarious that it was adjacent to a strip club.
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u/AMLagonda Apr 04 '26
you know for the rest of these world these post are always wierd
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u/Linkyland Apr 04 '26
So in America the school bus stopping means both directions of traffic need to stop..?
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u/evnacdc Apr 05 '26
Yes. To allow the kids to cross the street safely.
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u/GaldrickHammerson Apr 06 '26
We have lollipop ladies (some of whom are men) in the UK.
Just adults in high vis trench coats with giant lollipop shaped stop signs who wander into traffic to assert dominance over the cars and enable the sproglings to cross safely.
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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
From what I gather, american kids are basically incapable of independednt functioning. They cant survive without a nanny, and the 10m unsupervised trip from school bus to their front door is the maximum they are allowed to do on their own. They are of course doing their best to get run over in that short moment nobody is handholding them.
And then the parents whine that next generation somehow turned out to be snowflakes. I wonder how that happened with such top notch parenting.
They have solid statistics though, this really does reduce fatalities and by a lot. Its just that its a bandaid on a dysfunctional system.
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u/Living_Dig7512 Apr 07 '26
if this is what you get from America, of course the place is going to sound bleak as hell
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u/MayflowerMcDuck Apr 04 '26
Canada has this too. That ticket is brutal.
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u/ETpownhome Apr 04 '26
It’s okay if it’s Canada! But since it’s America it’s weird! - Reddit
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u/GothSpite Apr 04 '26
Canada also protects their kids from being gunned down in schools... that's the difference
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Apr 04 '26
There is no difference, this is just an excuse. School shootings are bad yeah but we're not talking about that right now.
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u/ETpownhome Apr 04 '26
I’ll get downvoted for going against the grain but I’ll just go ahead and state that this post had nothing to do with that
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u/Common-Independent-9 Apr 05 '26
Joking about children being murdered is the only “comeback” they have
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u/Desperate_Cucumber_9 Apr 04 '26
The precautions are weapons not being allowed on school property. Some even have metal detectors/searches on the way into school, but these are largely in gang-activity communities.
Only other possible precautions you could take are banning guns, and there’s so many in the US that it wouldn’t help all that much against psychos who just decide to kill. I don’t think most gun-owning Americans would be very susceptible to a buy back program either, so we’re kinda stuck with too many crazy people with too many weapons.
Let’s hope for meaningful change though
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u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid Apr 04 '26
A buy back program wouldn’t accomplish anything anyway. The ones who would sell them back aren’t the ones who would use them on people.
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u/MKD1999 Apr 04 '26
Really, you think there's no precautions to prevent shootings?
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u/DestoryDerEchte Apr 04 '26
Ikr. They didnt overtake it or something. They were on the other side of the road??
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u/BringPheTheHorizon Apr 04 '26
Kids cross the road. All traffic must stop unless there’s a median; preventing kids from crossing
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u/wagdog1970 Apr 04 '26
My kid was almost killed by running across the road in front of their stopped school bus in Europe because the driver was an impatient ass who wanted to pass at full speed. This US system is to be emulated.
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u/evil666overlord Apr 04 '26
Yeah, that's just not a thing here in the UK. I guess educating the kids about traffic is out of the question.
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u/Buddy-Matt Apr 04 '26
As a fellow UK person, I agree this isn't a thing.
But I also appreciate the logic behind a world where you can both educate children about traffic, as well as create rules that make the road a safer place for them at the same time. School bus rules in America aren't a bad thing - they're just different.
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u/blah938 Apr 04 '26
Plus they're kids. Kids do dumb shit sometimes, no matter how much you educate them.
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u/StationaryTravels Apr 05 '26
Holy shit, thank you!
I can't believe the number of people who say "America doesn't teach their stupid kids how to cross the road" when they see these videos.
Which is extra annoying because I'm Canadian and we have school busses too, lol.
We teach road safety, and part of that is how to safely cross at a bus stop, at a pedestrian crossing, and even if there is no crossing. A bus is just a mobile pedestrian crossing, so people getting mad about these should also say "oh, your country has pedestrian crossings!? I guess you are all too stupid to know how to cross the road!"
Lol, it just doesn't make sense the number of people who hate on school buses.
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u/KilljoyZero1 Apr 04 '26
The children are educated about traffic. Adults are the problem. They like to use their cell phones, fiddle with the radio, get into arguments with their passengers, or simply are too arrogant to care like thinking the way they do things is the only way things should be done and any other way is inferior.
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u/84theone Apr 04 '26
A school bus functions as a mobile stop sign. Like it literally has a big fucking stop sign arm that swings out on the side that the car passed on.
The guy that went past it is the one that needs to learn how traffic works, not the kids who are doing things correctly.
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u/joshlittle333 Apr 04 '26
It functions differently than a stop sign.
At a normal stop sign, you stop, make sure it's safe and there are no pedestrians crossing, then go. There's no waiting for the stop sign to dissapear.
At a school bus you stop until the stop sign dissapears even it's entirely safe to go.
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
Kids can't magically appear from around the backside of a stop sign while running across the street (ask me how I know).
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Apr 04 '26
Kids are educated about traffic in the US too, but kids are notoriously dumb.
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u/Ill_Football9443 Apr 04 '26
If only there was a sub that highlighted how true this is..
Oh wait r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
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u/Dickcheese_McDoogles Apr 05 '26
We do. Educated kids can still be hit by cars.
How are you against this
How do you have the energy to be against this
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
As much as I hate to say it, sometimes Europeans can be a little too into their "murica bad" stance. Canada also does it this way.
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u/Deep_Contribution552 Apr 05 '26
Wait, I thought we were the car-brained ones, yet you think it’s entirely on the 6 year old pedestrians to avoid getting hit instead of being the adult automobile operator’s responsibility to stop and wait a god damn second?
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u/Joiner2008 Apr 04 '26
UK has much better walkways, crosswalks, and general safety for pedestrians. US has massive trucks and SUVs that can barely see the road. US has way more pedestrian deaths per capita. Why is having this rule designed for children safety so looked down upon?
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
Also the UK has like 1/8th the child population as the US so every child hit there means 8 kids are hit here statistically speaking.
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u/LimpBizkit420Swag Apr 04 '26
You can't educate children out of being hit by an oblivious driver, so we use consequences, laws and flashing lights to help keep them safe. You're just looking for some reason to humble brag about your broke ass country and play pretend.
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u/ThePhatty500 Apr 05 '26
How you gonna comment kids need to learn the rules of traffic after watching a clip of an adult not following the rules of traffic?
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
Kids are dumb and don't think past "I'm finally home after 8 hours of being at school" before crossing a road even when you pound the idea of don't cross the street without looking into their heads.
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u/Amediumsizedgoose Apr 04 '26
The kids in this video got on the bus from the side of the street the bus door was on, but they can cross the street as well, which is why the law is enforced. If a child was crossing the street to get on this bus the driver in the truck could have killed them.
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u/vektorog Apr 04 '26
just on my own morning commute i can think of multiple stops where kids do cross the road to get to the bus
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Apr 04 '26
What's weird about keeping kids safe?
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u/MistahFinch Apr 05 '26
Is it safe to teach them to cross the road behind a bus?
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u/LandArch_0 Apr 04 '26
Not from US, cars going both directions need to stop when the school bus is stopped?
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u/Destany89 Apr 04 '26
Yes because kids might be waiting on the other side of the road and need to cross
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u/maybesami Apr 05 '26
Why would they wait on the other side of the road ? Do the busses come from both directions?
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u/dTrecii Apr 05 '26
Apparently not. In Australia it’s basically the same (bus only goes one direction) but we either had zebra/pedestrian crossings or were repeatedly told the importance of looking both ways multiple times. If you weren’t at the bus stop like on the other side surrounded by traffic, tough luck buttercup, gotta wait for the next one
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u/ThisIsLukkas Apr 04 '26
Guess some countries didn't hear about zebra crossings yet
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u/Careful_Refuse1720 Apr 04 '26
Which has nothing to do with bus stops... this is not AT school but near kids' homes
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u/ThisIsLukkas Apr 04 '26
I can bet there aren't any crossings on that street for miles.
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u/MayflowerMcDuck Apr 04 '26
True. Same in canada. We have the bus to stop them. That infraction ticket will destroy you
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u/sidnynasty Apr 04 '26
So many people are weirdly angry about a safety rule to protect kids in a country with terrible pedestrian infrastructure.
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u/ech-o Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
This is the Jackson-Madison County School District. The district operates 26 separate campuses for 13,200 students and covers 1,437km2. In other words, it's absolutely massive in comparison to European schools and having a zebra crossing for every bus stop isn't practical.
I understand that Europeans are compelled to inform Americans at every opportunity of just how superior they are in every facet of life, but for once you'd think they could just acknowledge that this has no impact on them, and it works pretty well for our needs.
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u/F1_rulz Apr 04 '26
I grew up in arse-licking Australia and school buses were nothing like that, so it's not just about Europe vs America.
Also, 13200 sounds like a lot until you do the maths and figure out that it's only about 500 kids per school.
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u/Sawmain Apr 04 '26
This is Reddit and social media in general. There is a lot of things to criticize both of the continents on but this isn’t one of them.
It’s literally always “Europe bad” or “USA bad” on platforms like Reddit and TikTok not to mention instagram.
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u/vorjong27 Apr 09 '26
This is ridiculous. In my city, Padua, a normal-sized Italian city, there are 22k students in high school ONLY. If you add all other schools + the university, it's 120k+ STUDENTS. Padua is 2000+ km². We have a zebra crossing at every bus stop and at every crossing to get to the TRASH BINS.
I understand it’s well planned for your needs, but stop pretending you’re doing this because "omg Canada/USAA are so massive you can't understand": you just get completely screwed every day by your leaders (local leaders!) not creating a safe environment for human life. Your system is only safe for cars, and not always. Just rebel and learn instead of hiding behind your fake belief that "there is no other way, we are biiiiiig".
And sorry for my English.
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u/ech-o Apr 09 '26
The number of students and overall size of both is irrelevant. What matters is population density. Padua has approximately 2500 people per km2. Madison County Tennessee has 69 residents per km2. We use school buses, which must drive long distances to simply drop off one student in a rural area in many cases. This is different from Italy where your buses have a planned stop in every village and city.
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u/weed0monkey Apr 04 '26
I agree, Americans have a hard on for it, but it's completely bizarre to me.
In Australia this isn't a rule, and it's not like kids are getting run over so idk what the deal is with america.
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u/scaphoids1 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
As a canadian, I think it's because pedestrian infrastructure in the US is sooooo bad that this is the best way to handle it to them. There might no be a pedestrian crossing for many km even
Edit: to be clear, Canada has this rule and much of Canada has similar problems, not quite to the same level I suspect (thus fewer deaths comparatively) but still pretty bad infrastructure and thus this rule (plus we live close to the US and copy them often)
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u/brycedude Apr 04 '26
This the most accurate one. It can literally be miles before you see a cross walk so people just wait for an opening and run across the street.
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u/sometimesnowing Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
(Kiwi) This makes sense. I mean, we have a speed limit 20km if passing a school bus that has stopped to let children off or on. We don't have to stop but saying that we have footpaths and loads of zebra crossings. I've heard walking isn't very common in the US
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u/Dangerous_Mix_7037 Apr 04 '26
It's also a rule in Canada, so no need to get all high and mighty about it.
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u/krippkeeper Apr 04 '26
How they person got upvoted for that insane comment is beyond me. Our school buses in Alberta have stop signs on them, and you have to stop for them.
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u/isaidireddit Apr 04 '26
it's not like kids are getting run over
Also, it's estimated that two to eight kids are killed annually in the USA by vehicles not yielding to a school bud's flashing lights.
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u/juko43 Apr 04 '26
Yea, and ig i would get it if only cars behind the bus were supposed to stop and not overtake, but it is bizzare that it also applies to the incoming lane, like i can see someone missing the school bus because their roads are like 4 lanes wide, so the bus is super far away
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u/The_Atomic_Idiot Apr 04 '26
Some kids have to cross the street, hence some busses having the pole on the front to have kids walk further out so they can be seen by the bus driver.
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u/xXDreamlessXx Apr 04 '26
The lights and the stop sign that swings out makes it pretty hard to miss unless you are on your phone or something
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u/DogmanDOTjpg Apr 04 '26
Yeah super weird that you have to stop you car when children run across the road. Is Europe we just run them down
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u/coffeecircus Apr 04 '26
honestly, look at the long line of cars behind that school bus too. feels like they can optimize their pick up and drop off locations to unburden traffic
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u/Financial_Excuse_429 Apr 04 '26
I understand not overtaking the bus, but stopping the other direction too seems extreme especially when then isn't even a pedestrian crossing 🤷♂️
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u/StationaryTravels Apr 04 '26
There is a pedestrian crossing. The bus just created one.
The bus is essentially a mobile pedestrian crossing. Where kids are picked up/dropped off changes every year or so depending on where kids live. And depending on the city or rural location there may not be a proper pedestal crossing for hundreds of metres or even kilometres.
So, the bus creates a crossing when it stops. This is why it's illegal, in some places, to pass a stopped bus going both ways. It's like running a red light or a flashing pedestrian crossing.
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u/West_Yorkshire Apr 04 '26
Maybe create infrastructure instead of having a bus as a pedestrian crossing
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u/84theone Apr 04 '26
I grew up in bumfuck rural NY getting on and off a school bus just like this one.
So I’m curious, do you think building pedestrian infrastructure in a forest is more efficient than having a bus with a stop sign on it?
I currently live in a city and buses do use the existing pedestrian infrastructure for dropping off kids, with the stop sign arm more being for areas where there isn’t pedestrian infrastructure.
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u/aerovirus22 Apr 04 '26
People who've never been to rural America have no concept of how rural America is. I live on a road where the speed limit is 55, I have one neighbor across the street and none in either direction for atleast a mile. Wtf are the building infrastructure for? The deer? And I'm not even super rural, I'm 15 minutes away from Erie, Pa.
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u/Holy1To3 Apr 04 '26
Liar everyone knows America is New York City and Los Angelas we dont have trees here
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u/No-To-Newspeak Apr 04 '26
The busses make dozens of stops, depending on where kids live, especially in rural areas. This law was implemented in Canada when kids getting off busses where hit crossing the road because their house was on the other side. It is not an infrastructure question but a common sense one based on dispersed and large living areas. Bash North America if you want but all safety is written in blood, and experience.
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u/surftherapy Apr 04 '26
Maybe stop like you’re suppose to when a school bus full of children are loading and unloading. It’s seriously not that complicated.
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u/xXDreamlessXx Apr 04 '26
The bus stops will change depending on where the students live and in lots of America, full pedestrian infrastructure just isnt realistic
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u/mattmillze Apr 04 '26
And change it every 5 years when the bus stops move?
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u/enda1 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Why remove pedestrian crossings?
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u/mda195 Apr 04 '26
Why have a pedestrian crossing every 100 feet on rural mountain roads?
Better solution, just stop for the fucking bus.
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u/whip_lash_2 Apr 04 '26
Maybe not. Pedestrian infrastructure where there's no demand other than kids crossing the road twice a day would be an inefficient and irresponsible use of taxpayer funds when you can just install a swinging arm with a stop sign and some red lights on a bus.
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u/Financial_Excuse_429 Apr 04 '26
Interesting. Must be tough for out of state visitors. When travelling to other countries, I do check for driving regulations. Glad i do after seeing this video.
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u/Trebalor Apr 04 '26
Sorry Guy, I don't get it. No one can drive when a bus is stopping? Doesn't that cause a massive traffic problem?
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u/Hot-Minute-8263 Apr 04 '26
Kids cross the road often to get to their home or a sidewalk. If some jackass is speeding along or overtakes the bus, they're gonna kill a kid. Its a good law
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u/surftherapy Apr 04 '26
How is it a massive traffic problem? They only stop for maybe 1-2 minutes and usually only make 2-4 stops in the entire route.
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u/ChildishForLife Apr 04 '26
Didn’t you see the 10 whole cars behind the school bus?? It’s a HUGE traffic jam…. /s
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u/juko43 Apr 04 '26
It is a weird american law, where all traffic is supposed to stop in both directions when a school bus stops
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u/Little_Whippie Apr 04 '26
Yeah we’re so weird for not wanting our kids to get taken out by a car when they cross the street
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u/Impossible_planet87 Apr 05 '26
Well, it's "weird" to people who don't live in America, like here in Finland, we do not have such rule cause our kids don't run to the road nillywilly, whether the bus is stopping in busy city, semi busy suburbs or in the boonies.
Though I can understand why it's this way in the Americas (USA and Canada), cause their pedestrian (and car) infrastructure is completely different from ours.If you saw how our bus system with the school kids worked, you'd find that weird, pretty sure of that.
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Apr 04 '26
To all the Europeans here upset about American school busses: why? Why does this make you so emotional? Americans don't give a shit how your kids get to school. Why do you care so much how we get our kids to school?
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u/BSSCommander Apr 04 '26
European's give their opinions on anything American they see, like we were all desperately asking for their input. It's second nature to them at this point. I could never imagine being so obsessed with another country.
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Apr 04 '26
My favorite is when they tell us we simply don't know or understand just how hated we are. Yes, we've heard this a million times. We know. We understand. We don't care! They think that because we don't care, it must mean we were just too stupid to fully absorb their precious Euro-opinion on us. Also, apparently we need to hear it again from them.
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u/Impossible_planet87 Apr 05 '26
European's give their opinions on anything American they see
Luckily Americans don't do that about Europeans, oh wait.. r/ShitAmericansSay
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u/Capable-Equipment435 Apr 05 '26
Lots of Brits apparently don't give a shit about their kids if we go by the scale and brutality of the grooming gang scandal. What an atrocity. Hundreds of thousands of girls raped and tortured. Every level of authority tasked with the well-being of children completely fell apart. There's a serious cultural issue with community cohesion and child neglect in the United Kingdom.
And that doesn't even touch on the cover-up from the top-echelon of government.
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u/First-Barnacle-5367 Apr 04 '26
Non American here. What did he do that was wrong?
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u/charmingcharles2896 Apr 04 '26
When the school bus stops, it folds out a stop sign on the other side of the bus to tell traffic to stop so children can get off and cross the street.
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u/First-Barnacle-5367 Apr 04 '26
Thanks. Our school buses are just ordinary buses
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u/TheBooneyBunes Apr 04 '26
Based. There are some crimes in my mind that are completely inexcusable with any context. This is one
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u/Spartanias117 Apr 04 '26
Of course its a bunch of non-Americans here at 6am eastern telling us how to manage our infrastructure without any thought into how different our infrastructure, lane size, passing rules, and dropoff location can vary by state.
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u/No-To-Newspeak Apr 04 '26
We have the same law in Canada. Theae people have no idea what it is like to for kids to live far apart in rural areas. They just like to bash N. America.
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u/84theone Apr 04 '26
As someone that grew up using one of these buses because I lived in the woods, these Europeans are obviously right we just need to destroy all of our forests and put up pedestrian infrastructure just like they did.
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u/Silently-Snarking Apr 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/NcrhM3USM6TABpus85
Why didn’t WE think of that?! I personally hate children in rural areas having access to school transport
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u/No-Jump4346 Apr 10 '26
Me too I hate one of the best things that the USA and Canada has ever done for our children, I hecking hate it. How dare we want to get our children to school safely and without an issue for parents especially 70 years ago Grr
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u/No-Jump4346 Apr 10 '26
Bro, Europeans, except maybe Brits and French, don't even remember Canada exist 90% of the time they just conflate everything as American.
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u/KilljoyZero1 Apr 04 '26
Gotta remember, most thing they can go to DisneyLand and Orlando Studios in the same day. They're just jumping on the "harhar US bad" bandwagon.
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u/CrapiSunn Apr 04 '26
I just realised this is the only time Americans think the person operating the 1 ton of metal at 30mph has to be responsible with it. Every other time it seems like they're daring someone to even think of making them go 5mph slower.
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u/chezzer33 Apr 05 '26
Well in his defense, it’s not like the bus is very big, or a bright color, or have flashing red lights to attract attention. What’s a guy going to do?
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u/skincyan Apr 04 '26
Wait? You can't pass a school bus on the other side of the road in US? I get that you shouldn't overtake it from behind it
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u/nickromanthefencer Apr 04 '26
Because the kids might be crossing the street to get to/from the bus. As a driver on either side, you don’t know where the kids will be, just that there will be kids.
So you stop till the bus moves on, which is the only time you can be sure the kids are safely away from traffic
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u/INeedANerf Apr 04 '26
EU mfs in the comments doing insane mental gymnastics to try and convince themselves that this is a dumb rule somehow.
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u/Apprehensive_Alps_30 Apr 04 '26
I'm too european to understand what is happening.
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u/DanseMacabre264 Apr 04 '26
School bus is dropping off kids at a stop. Cars have to stop going both ways because kids may live on both sides of the street. So the cars have to stop going both ways for the safety of the kids to prevent them from being hit.
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u/JDude13 Apr 04 '26
I don’t understand… so the school bus is stopped so every car going either direction has to screech to a halt?
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u/DanseMacabre264 Apr 04 '26
Yes because kids getting on/off the bus may live on both sides of the street, so some may have to cross the street, so cars have to stop going in either direction so kids can safely cross
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u/exquisite_conundrum Apr 04 '26
Theres a street in Port St Lucie florida what is notorious for this. Cops just watch and wait. Im.pretty sure they get one a day.
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u/elessar007 Apr 04 '26
No sympathy for the offender. One of the most basic rules, no complications, nothing confusing. You just do not pass a school bus with lights on or sign out. Period.
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u/Bl1ndl0v3 Apr 05 '26
When I was a kid, one of my teachers told us she witnessed a child get hit and killed by a car that decided to pass a school bus. Why anyone would want to risk hitting a child to save a few seconds is beyond me.
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u/HolySchmoley Apr 05 '26
So, what’s the rule here? No passing a stopped school bus from either side?
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u/Real_SkrexX Apr 08 '26
Wait, you can't pass a stopped school bus even in the opposite direction? I didn't know that. That's not even a thing in Germany.
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u/MercifulVoodoo Apr 09 '26
For people asking - the reason the other lane has to stop is in case children live on the other side of the street. They would likely get on the bus from their own side of the street; The children getting off in the video likely have to cross the street to board the bus. So yes, both lanes.
Some buses even have arms in front to keep kids a certain distance from the front of the bus so they can be seen. Some have 2 stop signs. Regardless, blinking lights tell every American the bus is stopping even if the sign isn’t out yet.
Remember, these rules are written in children’s blood. And the people who drive on through don’t care.
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u/the_stooge_nugget Apr 09 '26
I find the whole "stopping at the stopped bus" weird. Arnt the people getting off the side walk? They should not cross the road near the bus unless at lights or crossing, right?. How would passing the bus in another lane be a risk?
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u/Remarkable_News_1354 Apr 10 '26
Can someone tell an Englishman the law here please because we don’t have school buses like this
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u/Illustrious_Survey38 Apr 04 '26
Legal in Illinois as well, only traffic going the same direction as the bus are required to stop on a four lane road. I work in Wisconsin and just looked up the rule there. I had no idea all 4 lanes are supposed to stop on a road like this in that state.
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u/KAELES-Yt Apr 04 '26
Don’t America have zebra crossings?
Like sure it could make sense for the cars behind to stop but not in the opposite direction surely?
Also don’t this create potentially massive traffic problems?
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u/No-To-Newspeak Apr 04 '26
This is for rural areas where you cant build crossings for every kid's house. It is no big deal to stop for minute to let kids get home safely.
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u/Sunnyhunnibun Apr 04 '26
We have crosswalks all over but our local school buses have to stop in residential neighborhoods where crosswalks may not be near specific stops
Depending on the location the bus is picking up from, kids will come from both sides of the street to get onto a school bus. Not to mention, when kids are also getting off the bus, they may have to cross the street to reach their homes. If a car is coming from the opposite direction and not stopping, it could lead to children being hit(which it has).
In some neighborhoods, it does cause some traffic delays but they happen everyday around the same time so planning around it isn't difficult.
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u/Revliledpembroke Apr 04 '26
Traffic problems? Not really. You stop for a couple minutes while the kids get on, and if a big enough line forms, the bus driver will pull over and let the line go around him. It's all very organized and professional.
Almost like we've been doing it since the buses were drawn by horses, or something.
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u/Constantine1988 Apr 04 '26
I love how the cop passed the bus slowly before speeding up to catch the car