Why Buses Open Doors on Railroad Tracks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ย. 2019
- Before it became law, school buses didn’t have to open their doors at railroads. Sure, they stopped to check for an oncoming train. But when visibility is low, say, in fog or during a snowstorm, that method can prove dangerously ineffective.
Everything changed in the 1930s, but the situation still wasn’t ideal. Originally, a student was assigned as a “lookout” during each ride. They’d get off the bus once it stopped and look both ways down the railroad crossing. This continued until it was decided that it was too big a responsibility put on these young volunteers’ shoulders.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Why bus drivers open the door 0:48
Further safety precautions 1:47
Why are school buses yellow? 2:21
Why is the roof painted white? 2:47
Why are the windows tinted? 3:16
Why is the steering wheel so massive? 3:36
Why don’t they have seatbelts? 4:14
🚍 The most fascinating bus facts 🚍 4:51
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SUMMARY:
- It all comes down to safety and lessons learned. By opening the door AND their side window, a bus driver is better able to hear if a train is coming.
- Besides coming to a full stop 5 to 15 feet before the crossing (plus opening the door and window), bus drivers must turn off anything that creates distracting sounds, including the radio and fans.
- White reflects the sun’s heat better, so it keeps the inside of the bus 10° cooler.
- The dark tint of the windows blocks a lot of sunlight from getting in, and it retains interior heat in the winter!
- Most buses don’t have power steering. This system normally helps the driver use less force to turn the wheels. Buses don’t have it because there’s always the risk that it could fail.
- So far, 8 have passed laws requiring school buses to have seatbelts. Occasionally, individual school districts have the freedom to decide whether to implement them.
- There are currently about 427,000 school buses in America alone!
- If you’ve ever dreamed of owning your own big yellow bus, you can go to eBay now and purchase one for about $3,000.
- An average school bus can reach a max of 65 mph (although local speed limit laws for them are usually much lower!).
- The largest bus in the world is the Neoplan Jumbocruiser. They stopped production in 1992, but the jumbo-sized coach didn’t disappoint!
- The first buses were pretty much horse-drawn farm wagons in the late 1800s. The carriage was labeled “Public School” and it transported children that lived far away. (Most kids still walked to school at that time.)
- According to the American School Bus Council, buses save an estimated $7.7 billion every year!
- Buses also help our environment. If every child in a community rode the bus to school, it would save more than 2 billion gallons of fuel!
- One education report found that students who rode the bus were much less likely to miss school.
- There are perks to being a school bus driver! On field trips, they’re sometimes gifted free entrance to those destinations.
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Hey guys! Are you still in school? How old are you, btw? 🙂
Im 11 in 6th grade.
19
im 15 in 10th grade
I'm 16 yrs old and in 10th grade
I’m 18 and in 8th grade
The answer is so the bus driver can hear if a train is coming. Just saved y'all 8+ minutes
Madlad
Lol, no you dident kid
I still wanna watch the video..
Danny Hall thanks bro
wuh wah weh what pah ?
the video title made me think that the bus opening the door exactly over the railroad track.
Me too
right
Me too
I Thought They Open It Then Cross.
And because that was shown in the thumbnail
I swear, none of yall have ever ridden a bus. The driver tells you to be quiet, you wonder why? Because they're listening.
edit
gEES i didnt want to anger you people!
She doesn't tell me to be quiet-
Ploxiaz oh mine always does she’s extremely strict and practically none of the kids like her that much.
@@tyudeongis im in school 🤧
Bluem Gacha and Gaming did she ever move you to the front seats? In 4th grade my bus driver said I was being loud so I was moved to the front seat and then this patrol told me and I had to sit in the front seats for weeks
I never followed a bus drivers rules. Their job was to drive me to and from school, not be my parent. They're just upset cuz they could have been anywhere in life but there they are driving buses.
Every school bus I been on hasn’t opened the doors on any railroad tracks.
EpicGamer _Pickle Same. I rode the bus home and went over tracks daily.
Same
Mine did
It depends on the district. You have to do it for your cdl driving test but our district doesn't open the door.
My bus driver it depended some days she would open the door if it was dark out and some days she wouldn’t
That always scared me as a kid because i thought the bus driver just got mad and was like you know what get off and get hit by a train 😅
Lol
I rode that bus for 12 long years. My ride was an hour each way. Thankful for safe bus drivers.
More specifically, the 1938 incident in Salt Lake City, Utah is the reason the laws changed after a school bus stopped at a railway crossing in a blizzard, couldn't see the train coming due to terrible visibility.
Well isn't that something, I missed my bus today for school
I ride the bus and it’s really fun because I can talk to my friends while we’re going to school
When I went to school in 1940' 50's only country kids rode the school bus. If you lived within the city limits , you walked to school. Rain or shine, snow or ice, didn't matter. We did NOT have "snow days", either. If the school buses weren't able to pick up the country kids, then when they did, the kids had to make up any lessons missed. I remember only one day that classes were cancelled. i was a sophomore in h s. A very strong straight line winds blew out the windows on the south side of the school. The next day we went to school with boarded up windows. It was dark in the spanish class I had then. We never thought it was cruel to have to walk to school in INCHES of snow. Most if not all thought it was a privilege to go to school.
This was before the suburbanization of the US took off though
My pop was a school bus driver and a fleet manager, you never appreciate just how much work goes into driving and maintaining a school bus with all that ware and tare.
Answer to the video: So that they could hear if a train horn is nearby/coming.
King Super Saiyan thanks bro
This needs to be pinned
7:50
I was once so late with a schoolbus that I and everyone else in it missed the first lessons, break and even lessons after that and arrived at lunchtime 😂
@KoreoBace , didn't your teacher shout at u ??..
If we r late , they will write a diary remark, and if we got more than 5 remarks, we will get warning letter and if we get more than 3 warning letter , we will get suspension. Even if we get into the bus early and the bus driver drives slowly and reach the school ,there will be no complaints on driver, only us ( cruel). They will not kind of take care of us because we r private bus. School bus cause the double money of private bus . And soooo sorry for explaining everything. T_T.
@@zzangdv Getting suspended for being late makes zero sense. If they miss a little bit of school accidentally then they will be forced to miss multiple days of school?
If you stay positive
In a negative situation
You win..........
how
Not all the time.
good luck with that
I work at an international/IC bus dealership..... in my 15 years, I’ve never seen a School bus with no power steering.
It used to be quite common back in the day, but it is not so common now.
This video is kind of bad the doors aren’t even on the right side😂
Other countries do in fact exist
U.S. door on the right.
Carter Killorn my school bus have the door on the right
And it's in the middle of the road.
Did anyone noticed that "STUDYING" is like a mixture of STUDY and DYING?
And hows that related to the video
holy sh-
@@fumekoo Yeah, good point. 😂👍
So are you saying that LIVING is like a mixture of LIVE AND DYING?
Did you also notice that DYING is the mixture of DIE and DYING
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बस खुद को मज़बूत बनाना है
सही समय कभी नही आता
बस समय को सही बनाना पड़ता है।।
Here in Illinois, school buses aren’t required to have seatbelts but a bus company that has small buses called Septran are required to have seatbelts on every bus even though they do take up a lot of time when trying to evacuate a school bus
everything I ever wanted to know about school buses, and then some, and then some more
Yes
Short answer: so the driver can hear and see the train ok thanks bye
Boombox111 thank you.
Boombox111 Then why don’t cars have to stop and open their doors? They’re just as likely to get hit.
youplayfootballright ask them not me
The overhead flashing red lights on school buses work off of a button that the door lever rests against. When the lever is released (to open the door) the lights are engaged and flash. This may vary from state to state but in most I’m certain it is required to have the lights going at any stop the bus makes
My old buss driver was the best, he was my first and last bust driver for school. After second grade I began homeschooling I miss my bus driver he did so much for the school and was never late even in the worst of winter storms.
Why is this always about school buses
Not true
@Sai Ritvik 4H i noticed that now haha
Probably because if there’s a train accident, passengers can escape.
nope
Or so he can see down the tracks
Real Answer: So that a bus driver Can listen if a train is coming
AliceArtAnimal Man if a train hits the bus, I doubt anyone will be able to escape.
Nah soy can welcome the train in your bus
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
I rode a bus, and during high school, I drove a bus. The best of both worlds.
So what happened to traffic lights going red if a train is coming?why is the onus on the bus driver to check?and why is it only bus drivers, why not cars? I dont get it
All great questions that are never adequately explained.
Prior to school buses there were many one room schools. School buses could pick up children from far away, allowing the schools to consolidate their students into larger buildings.
We lived so many different places growing up and every place was picked with being able to walk to school in mind. Looking back, such a great idea exspecially because when school was out and on weekends we could use the school playground.
Imagine that they left the door shut and the bus driver yelled "Want to see your great grand parents kids?"
They open the door cause it’s law, they need to listen for a train so if there is one coming, they can back off.
I was just like why does my busdriver stop at the railroad?
Then *notification pops up*
*Place WOW meme here*
Ploxiaz Same
That's incredible dangerous if a train arrives... I don't wanna know...
Thanks for answering my questions
Thanks for the information. Keep making great informative videos. I'm a school bus driver.
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The reason was because a school bus in Congers, NY a school bus driver heard a train horn, and started driving faster towards the railroad crossing, to beat a Penn Central fast freight. The bus lost. This incident led to the law of buses stopping at crossings.
School bus doors are on the right not the left.
Nugget Ours have theirs on the left
There are buses with doors on both sides....
Guys, I think he just wanted the animations to make sence...
Depends on which country you are in, but sometimes they will be on both sides
Never knew that.Thanks for info.👍
I know why, so when the train hits the bus, the kids will be like a confetti popper and go EVERYWHERE
I don’t take a bus. My mom or dad doesn’t take me to school. I have working legs, I use them. Great video!
🤘
Which is your school, and what ia your class
@@godofthunder6561 Peipon Koulu,Finland. Class 6a
Mikê'e Stark it’s not bad. Because I’m 12 and that means that I’m in 6th grade. Referred to Finnish systems
Mikê'e Stark and nope, there’s no low or high classes.
So that who ever wants can get down
We don't have rail road tracks were I live and our bus only has one door.
I took my friends bus home once and his bus just goes right over the railroad tracks without opening the doors.
Who else is annoyed by this guys bad sense of humor that he thinks is good?
@iHave Ded i dont get it
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@iHave Ded i know who sans is hes that undertale skeleton guy with that meme song thing
Zahir Mustaffa ...
Close enough
...
You doing a lot of things on buses just lately
Back in the 1950's and '60's I walked to elementary school (K-6). We lived at one end of a block, and the school was at the other end of the block. For high school (7-12) my father (our high school principal) drove me to school, and I took the bus home.
My parents are bringing me to school today
Educative❤️
Service door is on the right, not the left. And it's officially National School Bus Yellow.
I rode the bus and in my opinion I had the best bus driver in the world "Mary Harris", I still love her to pieces and hug her neck every time I see her. I've been out of school for 25 years.
It's to listen for trains ik I was in training
I'm watching this while on the bus.
Cool
Love the song at the first lol nice ding bright side
I remember riding the school bus as early as when I was in kindergarten in 1989 and I remember they had to do that and nobody was allowed to talk while the doors were opened at the railroad tracks. Of course I finished highschool on May 20th, 2002.
Why Bright Side is talking about bus these days.
I think He is missing his school days.
Anyone having any other ideas?????
He might ran out of ideas so he just talks about random thing!
NAMDEO PATIL well, I’m a bus enthusiast, so I got 0 problems
Yeah, for him to get a life. Legit, EVERY one of his video is fake. Don't believe me? Just tell me about any bright side video and I'll explain on how it's fake!
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Nice vid!
Yes I did ride a school bus. When I was in the 7th and 11th grades. From south-central L.A. I went to Parkman Jr High in Woodland Hills and Birmingham HS in Van Nuys. It was the best experience in my life!
Is this an American thing, because that sure doesn’t happens in Australia...
AwesomeJade2007 no it’s not American either?
I’m confused then... where is it... WHICH COUNTRY DOES THIS?!
AwesomeJade2007 UsA
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When trains comes across the crossings in Canada they are not required to sound the horn every single crossing
You answered the question in the first two minutes. I’m scared to see what the other 8 minutes of the video are
Why?
They don’t open there doors in Australia.
Then How Can You Get In And Out?
@@SansDiamond he means they dont open it on the level crossing
Sans Diamond through the roof
Jokes, what Julie said.
They don’t either in Florida
They really should've jus called this video "facts about buses"
In the UK we have loud sirens at crossings with indicator lights
The top 2 red mean "train passing"
All mean "train passed"
Orange mean "train is approaching"
It makes it more dangerous in my opinion because they must come to a complete stop and the start again. They could get stuck on the tracks at that point. Without stopping it may have the proper momentum to cross the tracks. Especially in snow or ice conditions
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I thought it was to let the smell out from the homeless man sitting in the back.
Nice video bro
Funny thing was when once in my hometown they still did it on a line that CSX had long abandoned and taken up mostly all of the rails for at the crossings, ever since 2015
Why this channel even exist they are making obvious answers
No, they make the ones
Neither I walk a mile to school there is no busses in england,
Benjy 512 a mile isn’t to bad
Rhythmic 675 I know it isn’t
I rode the school bus to school in grade school and yes I love riding on though my siblings didn't .. I also drove school bus a few years ago .. and enjoyed it and yes we have features now a button to cancell fans, radio and other noise making devices .. though wish it did shut a few kids up LOL.. though we did flash the dome lights and that signaled to the kids to be quiet until the lights goes off.
I don’t think a bus rocking back and forth with children looking out the window is safe either
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The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round all through the town
I told my bus driver about that a long time ago
to hear the train
I walked to all of schools I went to, except the first few weeks of second grade, because our new school hadn’t been finished in time to start there. I graduated from high school in 1974, and went to work soon after that.
I 'm 12 years old still in secondary school and year 8
I've got a question
Is the battle bus real?
Bruh it needs to be tho I'd ride it
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@@AnimationCow .....
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Can you do a video about light sleepers? 🙏🏽
This is literally a waste of time they open the door to hear if there is a train
My bus doesn’t have to cross over railroad crossings
Chloe Lynn Jones mine too
Mine does cause we have to cross the railroad on the way to and from school.
There are two possible answers.
#1 the bus driver can't stand listening to all the students talking or screaming at the same time, and wants to get out of the bus and run away.
#2 the bus driver is a nice person, and wants the train to get inside the bus
for #2, the bus driver should wait on the tracks with the door open and yell "all aboard" while the train approaches.
Finally something interesting.
THANK YOU!!!! I’ve been wondering why my bus does that
In the UK school busses are just normal busses run by the bus companies
Cool video
Back in the ‘50/60s I walked to grade school, middle school and high school. I’m one of those grandmas who talk about the 2 miles I had to walk to high school in all kinds of weather. I didn’t mind the high school walk though, because the short cut to my school was through a college campus and I got to see young college men 😋.
As a commercial driver, both Haz Mat trucker and bus driver. I agree we stop look and listen, as our flashers are on. But opening doors or windows are optional.
School Bus Yellow is the beautiful color of BACK TO SCHOOL. Summer vacation is over!!!
There are some third world countries like Austin, TX where they don’t have to do honk the horn in certain areas - even though the railroad was there first
See in the UK we have barriers that come down about 1 minute before the trains come and then go back up after.
BRIGHT SIDE: Why do buses doors open when there on the railroad
Me: They do?
Hey Bright Side, could you do a video on how different trains in different countries sound their horns?