Originally Posted by
TakingMyTime
...I see all too many parents driving their kids to school while blowing through the stop signs. I mean, what kind of message are you sending your kid?
There's a 'Waldorf School' between where I live and where I work part-time. It's 3/4 mile between those two points, residential streets.
I avoid the two blocks that school fronts on during school time when it's time for me to be on my way to work. There are numerous stop signs at the intersections adjacent to that stretch, I've seen way too many instances of parents completely ignoring not only the stop signs but also other peoples' kids trying to cross the streets, or getting out of vehicles by opening doors into the traffic lanes so they can get their kids out of the back seat while other parents are maneuvering for parking spaces at the curb. Even parents double-parking in the middle of the street to let their kids out close to the school's entrance instead of maybe parking a block away where bare curb space is ample... but then of course the kids would have to cross a street to get to the school.
I used to drive a school bus. My route was picking up special needs kids from urban and rural homes. There was one stretch on that route where I routinely had a vehicle that would PASS ME IN A POSTED
NO PASSING ZONE where oncoming traffic was hidden by road topography.
I spoke with the bus company's Safety Officer more than once about this, got nowhere.
I tried to get the local PD to take note, giving them the vehicle license number and videos I took of the activity, even to the extent of giving them the times when this activity would most likely occur.
Only to be met with indifference.
This was a decade ago, in a different state from where I am now. I have a county sheriff now as a neighbor who's given me opportunity to discuss how this kind of behavior is looked upon and it's not much different here and now than back there and then.They have other priorities that have to come first and lack manpower as well as backing to enforce the law that covers this kind of behavior.