West Seattle traffic alert: School-bus practice time

The first heads-up came from WSB Forums member “sbre” (thanks!) – today and Friday, it’s practice-run time for the school buses serving Seattle Public Schools in this area. We spotted one in dropoff mode on a street in Arbor Heights, and then saw this lineup outside Chief Sealth International High School in Westwood. School doesn’t start for SPS till Wednesday, September 5th – but some independent schools start sooner, as does Highline Public Schools to our south (first day is this Thursday), so if you drive, it’s time to start paying attention to school zones again.

Kerry August 27, 2012 (1:10 pm)

I was west-bound at Andover and Delridge about 7:45 this morning. The east-bound traffic got their green light and the bicyclists were navigating through the intersection to turn left onto north-bound Delridge… But the school bus was going straight, to continue west-bound on Andover. Everyone seemed quite surprised: The bicyclists were surprised the bus was going straight. And the bus was surprised the cyclists were turned left right in front of it.
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Take care and be safe out there!
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sam-c August 28, 2012 (1:54 pm)

that is weird because at that intersection- all of the eastbound Andover traffic cycles through first, (green lights and green left turn arrows). and THEN all the westbound Andover traffic gets their turn through the intersection. both directions of Andover don’t have greens at the same time. on the other hand (one thing I’ve often seen) is that school bus drivers at that intersection (andover going west) often do not pull far enough to be ‘sensed’. so they wait for the light through several cycles and it doesn’t turn green… maybe this guy decided to go through the red light, seeing that the eastbound traffic had a green.

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