Thread: dash cam, School Bus illegal maneuver

boa, the internet does not work like that. (well I can't get it to)

here is how much I made from youtube in the last 28 days




the only people to make money from youtube have a million or more hits,
now if a train had hit the bus I might have earned some fuel money.

can't wait three seconds for the skip ad to count down ?? no wonder you sympathise with the ****wits that run the crossing !!

Originally Posted by goingbush

Im a closet anarchist too but thats flawed logic, would you go through a red light if there were no cars coming ??

if the red light was red for 5min, yes

Originally Posted by Eevo

if the red light was red for 5min, yes

Me too. If the light is stuck and I can safely go through it I will. I am not going to sit there all day.

I agree with Heather, it's a red light with gates, so what if you have to wait, no excuse for going around rail gates.

Personally I'd be taking that vid of the school bus to the school, any bus driver carrying passengers and doing stupid things like that, should not be driving school buses or any bus for that matter.

Baz.

Looking at the site with Google Streetview, it looks like there's good visibility in both directions on the track.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Looking at the site with Google Streetview, it looks like there's good visibility in both directions on the track.

Only once you're on the tracks, or at least inside the boom gates. The platforms and associated buildings block the view on one side, and there is vegetation that blocks the eastward view if approaching from the north. There's a good view east down the tracks on approach from the south.
I've sat at that crossing many a time on the way to a case, the gates come down when an eastbound train approaches the station and stay down until it has gone. You can see the train stopped at the station, the wait can be frustrating but there's no way of knowing if an express is going to come through on the other track, as they frequently do. It's a busy line.

Thanks, Pod, for clarifying that.

At the Parramatta Rd crossing there are spare booms because they are hit so often.

We also had rope for tying up the booms in vertical position if there was a fault. In that situation, the crossing was then provided with flagmen to help control road traffic when a train was to cross.

Probably off topic but I remember when I was young the trains would cross the Woolloongabba Fiveways preceded by a man ringing a bell and waving a red flag.
Now that dates me.
The law was originally introduced at the time of the first trains in the 1840s-50s but not rescinded in Queensland until after 1960 at least.

Regards Philip A