Q: If a bus is stopped on the aspect of the street with its purple lights flashing, however youngsters should not crossing, and there's a turning lane within the center, do automobiles going the wrong way should cease?
Ed King, Sunnyvale
A: Sure. By no means move a bus that has its purple lights flashing and cease arm prolonged. This is applicable on all streets, besides these divided by a bodily barrier, resembling a concrete wall or grassy median. Then solely automobiles touring in the identical course as the college bus are required to cease. The superb for passing a college bus with flashing purple lights and an prolonged cease arm is $1000.
Q: I used to be in Fremont on the main intersection of Stevenson and Fremont Boulevards, ready for the sunshine to alter, when a hearth engine got here up behind me. The purple lights and siren had been on and the driving force was honking the horn, time and again.
I used to be afraid to maneuver into the busy intersection on a purple gentle. I waited for the inexperienced gentle, then drove into the intersection and received out of the way in which. Did they actually count on me to proceed onto Fremont Boulevard on a purple gentle to let the hearth engine move? That didn't appear protected to me.
Michael Singer, San Jose
A: You might be required to maneuver to the suitable, if you are able to do so safely. Some police suggest not pulling into the intersection in case your gentle is purple.
Q: I don’t assume a two-lane proper activate the Freeway 85 north offramp to Fremont Boulevard would assist considerably. Many individuals within the left lane are going left, however even when they need to go proper, the limiting issue is often site visitors backed up on eastbound Fremont, as a result of gentle at Bernardo. A lot of the time throughout busy hours, one can't flip proper right here in any respect, even from the suitable lane.
Jonathan Blum, Sunnyvale
A: Site visitors engineers agree with you.
Q: A few years in the past, a Freeway Patrol officer instructed me to remain far sufficient behind the automotive in entrance of me that I may see its rear tires. He mentioned that in case you might be rear-ended, this leaves room to stop your hitting the automotive in entrance of you. It additionally provides you room to get across the automotive forward, ought to it stall. And it decreases the period of time it takes for a line of automobiles to begin shifting when the sunshine modifications as a result of everybody can begin shifting as quickly because it does. This makes a whole lot of sense to me.
Mike Handlin, Harmony
A: Sure. That’s what police suggest.
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