10-04-2017, 01:59 PM
(10-04-2017, 12:24 PM)timc Wrote:(10-03-2017, 09:04 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Unfortunately, that handbook page you linked indicates the rules are different for school buses — they have to stop at all crossings. I think this is ridiculous but that seems to be the current rule. We should at least be able to say that LRT track locations, especially the “in-street” ones, are not “railway” crossings, but I’m not a transportation lawyer so who knows.
The in-street tracks are not "railway" crossings, and school buses shouldn't have to stop for them. The other usual rules about railway crossings also don't apply. As far as I know, if there isn't a crossbuck, it isn't a railway crossing.
That makes sense, both in terms of the nature of the situation, and also because it wouldn’t make sense for the rules to require drivers to be able to perceive tracks in the street — whereas a crossbuck is just a sign, which they definitely should be able to see just like any other sign. So has somebody in bus management just not got the memo, or did they not pass it along to their drivers? I hope they get this figured out before a school bus gets rear-ended by someone.