Re: Since when are school busses allowed to break the law?
I see your point now. One question that still needs answered....are there any no parking signs along the street? If not then the parents may be able to legally park there. The school busses are in violation by driving into on-coming traffic and the crossing guard is impeding traffic by stopping them. <br /><br />If there are no signs prohibbiting parking then who is in the wrong to start with? From a law enforcement point of view where to start? OK, the school busses are breaking the law by crossing into oncoming traffic on a double yellow. Second point of view is why are they doing this? Because of the parents parking on the street. Can they be expected to wait until all parents are gone to go load or unload children? Legally yes, but in reality how? Now for the crossing guard, they are clearly in the wrong but from where? Because the school busses are crossing into traffic or because the parents parking on the street, and if there is no signs forbidding parking then what? It becomes a big circle of dung that never ends. Finally how many people on the street also see this as a problem? It is very possible that the loccal law and the school do not know of this as a problem. <br /><br />Common sense should prevail here and tell everyone that this is not working and not safe but then I am fully convinced that there is no such thing as common sense. Everyone involved will say yes it is not a good situation but I need to get my kids, or I need to get my bus going, or I need to get to my driveway. Common sense only applies to "the other guy". <br />This goes the same way with the school and city officials....common sense should tell them there is a problem there. But there is no such thing, so there you sit. The few who are annoyed by this are hoping for reform but not telling anyone what they want, the few who like the current system of loading and unloading children are probably hoping for a smoother system or location to load and unload but don't say anything. Possibly someone needs to bring this situation to their attention as a problem. <br /><br />Sounds like you have tried by calling the school officials with no response. From what I know of schools and government offices, the secretary possibly never passed on the message, or they just hoped you would go away. <br /><br />Someone needs to bring this out and keep bringing it out or else it will be forgotten. It is very very possible the people who could solve this problem are not aware of the scope of the problem or even that a problem exists. How can they fix a problem they are not aware of? <br /><br />A final thought from me to you. If you allow emotions to take control and block the road or cause a scene be prepared. The official that responds will definately not know of the situation from start to finish from your point of view and may view you as a troublemaker. It might end up backfiring and causing you some grief. <br /><br />Good luck to you in this. I hope you find the outcome you need.
