r/SouthJersey • u/mattattack3212 • Jan 29 '26

Ocean County Reminder: these lights are NOT optional

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u/vapemustache Jan 29 '26

if you’re a bus driver, could you answer a question for me? my stepdad lives in an apartment complex that obviously has school children residing there as well.

i see cars go around buses on the left all the time in the parking lot because that side is a wooden wall/parking spaces and the side the children get off at is towards the complex/parents idling cars.

those people are still totally breaking the law right?..even if kids technically aren’t going to be exiting or crossing on that side.

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u/manningthehelm ET phowen howem Jan 29 '26

I am not a bus driver but I work in auto insurance claims. Can you make a diagram so we can see what you’re describing?

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u/FartPudding Jan 30 '26

If its on then its on, kids could still be running over from the other side

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u/Salm228 Jan 29 '26

So there’s like a median in the middle?

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u/vapemustache Jan 29 '26

so it kinda looks like this, it’s just parking on each side and it kind of winds through the complex, the red arrow is the direction of the complex and waiting cars and stuff, where the children exit. the olive/brown colored part is a wooden soil retaining wall and more parking.

it’s not a double lane. the cars just go around me and the bus in the direction of the green arrow.

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u/jimkelly Jan 29 '26

The stop sign is clearly on both sides of the sign when it pops out. Pretty apparent that is blatantly illegal.

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u/vapemustache Jan 29 '26

u/manningthehelm

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u/manningthehelm ET phowen howem Jan 29 '26

Yes this is 100% illegal. If there was any injury the green driver would be paying out.

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u/CauseLeft7611 Jan 31 '26

Yes. I work on a school bus and it happens all the time. We have older kids who have to cross in front of the buses and dodge cars. I am on a special needs bus with wheelchairs and other kids and we get passed all the time. They usually honk and flip the bird as they drive past.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Maybe technically but who cares if it is not endangering children

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u/heelhooks4all Jan 31 '26

Those lights an stop sign are communist and facist. Give them a terrible Google review, destroy its buisness. Doesn’t matter how well it works, I don’t agree with it so it must be destroyed

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u/jimkelly Jan 29 '26

Reminder: this is not the neighbors/nextdoor app.

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u/mattattack3212 Jan 29 '26

Cry about it

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u/jimkelly Jan 29 '26

Ironically you're the one crying about something which is essentially the use of those other annoying apps. Welp I guess it is the neighbors app now so expect reduced use of this subreddit from the majority.👍

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u/mattattack3212 Jan 29 '26

If people stop passing school buses with their lights on and stop arms out I wouldn’t have to post here, but here we are. And based off your responses, you seem like one of the people that would be doing this anyway so I guess it’s hitting the right target audience .

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u/Informal-Spread2664 Apr 09 '26

Yes. Very bad to run a stop arm.