Rules of the road

Published 5:04 pm Wednesday, November 5, 2014

If you are traveling on a multi-lane road, usually four lanes, and a school bus is picking up or dropping off kids, you are not required to stop when traveling in the opposite direction.

This occurs on A Street Southeast in Auburn almost daily.

The bus is in the northbound lanes in front of AutoZone and southbound traffic is in front of O’Reilly’s Auto Parts. Traffic southbound stops for the northbound bus on a four-lane street and causes to traffic to backup to Ellingson Road. This causes traffic at Ellingson Road to come to a complete stop when they shouldn’t have to. Traffic turning to southbound or traffic crossing Ellingson is now at a complete standstill when someone is afraid to pass the northbound school bus.

– Vic Stevens