These bizarre-looking new school buses. They look like scary, futuristic, Battlestar Galactica-ish transport vehicles. They have lost all their “old school” charm and are, frankly, totally creepy. If I were a small child I would be terrified to board one for fear that doing so would be like entering the Twilight Zone. But then, I also have a completely irrational fear of street cleaners, so maybe I am overreacting.
Speaking of school buses and schoolchildren and school, you know what else I hate? The 25mph speed limit in school zones. Even in HIGH SCHOOL zones, where the students themselves drive like complete maniacs. When I was in school, we children had to fend for ourselves. We actually had to look both ways before crossing the street, and obey actual traffic warnings, and use appropriate crosswalks instead of simply plowing into oncoming traffic with reckless abandon. You know, COMMON SENSE. Now, I am not suggesting that people drive 50mph in school zones. BUT - I will say that I am so obsessed with not wanting to get a speeding ticket in school zones that I am barely watching the road at all, because my eyes are totally glued to my speedometer. Can you imagine the irony of running over a gaggle of schoolchildren because you were watching your speedometer instead of the road because you weren’t supposed to go over 25mph or you would get a speeding ticket, all in the name of keeping our schoolchildren safe?
Perhaps I should start using the public bus system. That is, as long as they aren’t those creepy new buses.
I have spent WAY too much energy on this post.
Safe travels to you all!
I remember when I was in elementary school and we didn’t even have a crossing guard. It was more of a “don’t run in front of cars, ok?” situation.
Public transpo is scary. I commuted by bus for a year and almost had a piece of the overhead rack fall on my head, a man told me at great length one day about how he no longer took his Haldol because he felt he no longer needed it, another man peed his pants and then started yelling incoherently about how we’re all going to hell– all sorts of fun things. Every day was an adventure that I didn’t want.
Yeah the new buses still have no seatbelts. The state will fine us for not having ourselves and are kids in seatbelts but the same state will allow everyone of the same kids to travel on a bus without seatbelts. Do they really care about the kids safety or is it money?
I didn’t even really attend school. I just showed up one day wearing a jean jacket and tight pinch rolled jeans.
I’ve never seen buses like that where I live, but our school zone speed limit is 20. So look at it this way: at least you get to go 5 mph faster than I do.
That bus looks like it was lowered down….like on “Pimp my Ride”. Oh the times…they are a-changin!
Dame, they still have to lower it another foot before you could hop on.
15 miles per hour school zone where I live in Florida….practically a dead ass stop. And a manical crossing guard who runs out into the road and stops all traffic every time a lone child makes an appearance.
25 mph for a school zone?? Over here it is 10 mph in a school zone. If the school is on a hill you have to break all the way down the hill to keep from going over 10 mph.
I would cry with happiness for if our schools had nice buses like this…but then again, our district doesn’t even have enough money for each kid to have his/her own textbook for English class. This bus clearly doesn’t service a ghetto.
In Las Vegas, in a school zone, it’s a $100 fine for every mile per hour above the speed limit.
This looks like the lopsided offspring of a regular school bus and a Volkswagen Thing. With a little Kim Kardashian mixed in.
“Gaggle of schoolchildren” LMAO!!! And I thought I was the only one who didn’t like the street sweeper! Small world
Now that this story has posted, I just saw my first bus like this yesterday! Space-Age!
My hubby drove a school bus in college & said, “they will not allow more than 30 kids in a classroom, but they’ll put SIXTY of the little monsters on a bus with no one to keep them under control except the guy that is hurtling down the road in a metal box and no seatbelts.”
He didn’t keep the job long.
‘Round here the 15 mph speed limits are really necessary. Because more than 60% of the drivers are either high or drunk. It’s better if they go slow, period.