Richard Paul Evans has a new Young Adult Book coming out in August. He was of my favorite authors.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/richard-paul-evans/the-big-announcement-youve-been-waiting-for/10150194328888025
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hazardous Bus Drivers
Here’s an article about the bus drivers in our area.
100 Bus accidents in a 4 month time frame when those months include spring break and a week off for Christmas. Follow my math… if there are approximately 4 weeks per month and only 5 school days per week, that’s 20 school days per month. Multiply that by the 4 month time frame they are reporting on that is 80 school days. That’s more than one school bus accident per school day. Actually the statistics are worse than that because the students had a week off for spring break and a week of other miscellaneous days off from Christmas, student work days, and snow days. That’s 1.4 bus accidents per day! That’s crazy.
Carpool Crazies
Every day I take or pick up my kids from school, the carpool line makes my blood boil. First of all, it is beyond comprehension why there is only one crossing guard for 5 lanes of traffic. No one can see that guard standing in the middle. In fact just this week a police officer ran right past the stop sign holding crossing guard. Yes, a police officer. He stops just yards beyond where he should have stopped and lectures the crossing guard for several minutes after the traffic flow resumes blocking an already congested area. My guess is that the crossing guard is a mom, either volunteering or earning a minimal amount. Here’s an idea, instead of lecturing the crossing guard, why didn’t the police officer get out and help her??
At one school the crossing guard is only on one side of the intersection (see diagram - it didn't copy very well). When the guard is walking children across the 5 lane road, people of the neighborhood and from the left side of the school think it’s there time to get into the school. It happens every day. Maybe this is “allowed” but what really gets me is when people stack up the line into the road so that when the crossing guard is no longer in the street there are several cars blocking 2 or 3 lanes of traffic.
At one school the crossing guard is only on one side of the intersection (see diagram - it didn't copy very well). When the guard is walking children across the 5 lane road, people of the neighborhood and from the left side of the school think it’s there time to get into the school. It happens every day. Maybe this is “allowed” but what really gets me is when people stack up the line into the road so that when the crossing guard is no longer in the street there are several cars blocking 2 or 3 lanes of traffic.
The other thing that drives me crazy is that the school has sent out notes about making a U-turn in the area of the school. They ask parents not too because it makes it dangerous for the students and causing more traffic congestion around the school. Even though when leaving the school you are not permitted to turn left, the school still prefers drivers not to make a U-turn. But every single day, numerous people make a U-turn. I need to go the other direction too, but I always go around the block to get back to the direction I need to go. It’s so frustrating when these drivers could pull into the neighborhood next to the school to get turned around, but everyday numerous people make a U-turn right there on that 5 lane road. When there are police officers around, they do nothing. It is so frustrating!
Anyone know the laws concerning crossing guards or U-turns on 5 line roads?
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