"hillary r.g. israeli" wrote:

My server keeps giving an error when I try to post this so I am trying to
submit via email. Thanks.

I don't know the area, but how about having a bus lane instead of a
pullout? (That is instead of a cutout in the curb, make the cutout
long enough to hold all the buses involved.)

At our school, for drop off. the buses pull up to the curb (all along
the front of the school inside the parking lot), and the children get
off and walk across the sidewalk into the school.

For pick up, the buses park diagonally in front of the school with the
handicapped buses next to the curb. Parents cars are not allowed into
the lot at all. The buses all load, and when everyone is on, then all
the buses pull out at once and then parents can come in and also
walkers (if any) can leave.

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Kevin Karplus wrote:

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*Though the reason your father gave is quite likely what they were
*thinking, it is an argument for faster traffic flow, not for greater
*safety. (Most bus pullouts are for the convenience of motorists, not
*for the bus drivers or passengers.) The buses would have to get in
*the traffic with the car drivers, but that should not result in
*enormously long delays, and should still be safer than having all the
*drivers making left turns and having motorists driving on the wrong
*side of the street.

But, if the bus isn't pulled over, how do the children get on and off
safely? Kids as young as 5 yrs old are on that bus, and that is where the
teachers meet them.

I'm going to google for the address and see what I find. That would be
cool to look at anyway

grandma Rosalie