[Little Pig]

They’re supposed to be using the yellow flashers as they come up on the stop. They’re trained to do it that way, or at least we were. It wakes up any distracted drivers before the red ones come on (you’d be surprised how often that happens early in the morning, especially for the really early runs). I forget the exact distance we were told, but it varied depending on the road and the location of the stop. It’s not so much for the drivers behind the bus, but mainly to gain the attention of any drivers coming the other way, who haven’t been behind the bus the whole way and therefore aren’t thinking “school bus”.

[this_ol_patriot]

Now they have strobes on top too, anyway they turn them on way too early, I'm not talking about a block or two, I mean they turn the corner and put them on, a red light or two later they finally pick up the kids. What I think is they are trolling for the kids every block because it seems they pick them up different places every day

Problem is people see the yellow lights think the bus is stopping soon and slow down and leave the traffic behind them in the intersection with the light changed, so you end running a red and you have traffic coming against you.

I dread seeing these buses I don't want to run a stop so I slow down too and only contribute to the problem. Aren't they supposed to have set stops that are the same everyday?